Informix Error -3610: No master table has been specified for this table.

Reasons / Common Causes

-3610 fires when a master/detail navigation command is attempted on a table with no master table established — per the official guidance, the table must first be established as the detail of another table in the form's INSTRUCTIONS section.

1. No MASTER OF relationship establishing this table as a detail, per the official guidance — the direct, only cause.

Solutions / Resolution

1. Establish this table as the detail of another table in the INSTRUCTIONS section, per the official guidance.

Examples

Establishing a master/detail relationship

INSTRUCTIONS
  orders MASTER OF item
END

Diagnostic Checks

1. Check the INSTRUCTIONS section for a MASTER OF relationship naming this table as the detail, and add one if a master table was expected.

Related Errors / Related Topics

• -3600 — "No detail table has been specified for this table." The mirror-image error, about no detail table being established for a master, rather than no master being established for a detail.

No MASTER OF relationship establishes this table as a detail — add one in INSTRUCTIONS if a master table was expected.