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Informix Error -1343

-1343 No help file specified.

This INPUT, PROMPT, or MENU statement contains a HELP help-number clause; however, no message file has been established. The OPTIONS HELP FILE statement establishes the message file, but the statement has not yet been executed. Review the program logic, and modify it to execute an OPTIONS statement with a HELP FILE clause before it is needed.

Oninit® Troubleshooting Guidance

Reasons / Common Causes

-1343 is the 4GL-program equivalent of -1123: it fires when an INPUT, PROMPT, or MENU statement's HELP help-number clause is reached, but no OPTIONS HELP FILE statement has yet established a message file — per the official guidance, this is the same underlying condition, surfaced under 4GL specifically.

  1. A HELP clause reached before any OPTIONS HELP FILE statement has executed, per the official guidance — the same direct cause as -1123.
Solutions / Resolution
  1. Execute an OPTIONS statement with a HELP FILE clause before the statement that requires it is processed, per the official guidance — see -1123 for the full detail.
Examples
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This is the 4GL-program wording of -1123's condition — see -1123's examples for the underlying OPTIONS HELP FILE ordering requirement.

Diagnostic Checks
  1. Trace the code path leading to the HELP clause, and confirm an OPTIONS HELP FILE statement executes on that path before it, per -1123's diagnostic approach.
Related Errors / Related Topics
  • -1123 — "No help file specified." The non-4GL wording of this same missing-OPTIONS HELP FILE condition.

The 4GL-program wording of -1123's missing-OPTIONS HELP FILE condition — see -1123 for the full detail.