Gateways that can participate in a heterogeneous commit transaction

A gateway acts as a bridge between the IBM® Informix® application (in this case, a database server) and a different database server. You can use a gateway to use IBM Informix applications to access and modify data that is stored in a database that is not IBM Informix.

The following table lists the gateways and corresponding database servers that can participate in a transaction in which the database server uses the heterogeneous commit protocol.

Table 1. Gateways and corresponding database servers/heterogeneous commit transaction
Gateway	Database servers
IBM Informix Enterprise Gateway with DRDA	IBM DB2®, OS/400®, SQL/DS
IBM Informix Enterprise Gateway for EDA/SQL	EDA/SQL
IBM Informix Enterprise Gateway Manager	Any database server with ODBC connectivity