Informix Error -831: Error found in Report specifications.

Reasons / Common Causes

-831 fires when one or more errors are found while compiling a report specification — per the official guidance, the specific errors are surfaced through the compiler's own prompts, with the finderr utility available to look up individual error codes.

1. A syntax error in the report-specification file, per the official guidance — the direct, general cause; the report compiler found something it couldn't process.
2. Multiple errors in the specification, per the official guidance's plural framing — more than one issue may need fixing before a clean compile.

Solutions / Resolution

1. Follow the prompts to see the error messages, per the official guidance — the compiler itself reports specifics beyond this generic -831 wrapper.
2. Use the finderr utility to look up individual error codes reported during compilation, per the official guidance:

   $ finderr <error-number>
   

3. Edit the report-specification file and compile it again, per the official guidance, once the specific errors are identified and corrected.

Examples

Looking up a specific compiler error

$ finderr 123
-- displays the detailed explanation for that specific report-compiler error number

Diagnostic Checks

1. Capture the specific error numbers reported during compilation, and look each up via finderr for detail beyond this generic wrapper message.

Related Errors / Related Topics

• -833 — "Saceprep could not compile Report." A related, more general report-compilation failure from the saceprep compiler itself, distinct from -831's specification-content errors.

A wrapper for one or more specific compiler errors — use finderr on the specific numbers reported to get the actual detail.