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Informix Error -4393

-4393 The MENU statement has exceeded the maximum number of selections.

There is a maximum of 25 selections in a menu. Make sure that you have not omitted an END MENU statement, thus combining two menus. If the menu is as you intended it, you will have to revise the program so as not to exceed the limit, for example by creating a hierarchy of menus.

Oninit® Troubleshooting Guidance

Reasons / Common Causes

-4393 fires when a MENU statement has more than 25 selections — per the official guidance, this is a hard limit; a missing END MENU combining two menus is a common contributing cause.

  1. A MENU statement with more than 25 COMMAND selections, per the official guidance — the direct, only cause.
  2. A missing END MENU combining two separate menus into one, per the official guidance — a related possible cause.
Solutions / Resolution
  1. Check for an omitted END MENU statement combining two menus, per the official guidance.
  2. If the menu is genuinely intended as-is, revise the program to stay within the limit, per the official guidance — for example, by creating a hierarchy of menus.
Examples
Splitting into a menu hierarchy

Replace one 30-option menu with a top-level menu of a few categories, each leading to its own sub-menu with the remaining options.

Diagnostic Checks
  1. Count the COMMAND selections in the MENU statement, and check for a missing END MENU if the count is unexpectedly high.
Related Errors / Related Topics
  • -4396 — "The MENU declaration at line line-number is not terminated." A related MENU-structure error, about a missing END MENU entirely, which can also be the cause of this selection-count overflow.

A MENU statement exceeds 25 selections — check for a missing END MENU, or split it into a hierarchy of menus.