Connecting to Informix

You can connect clients and applications to the Informix service in Cloud Pak for Data.

Configuring TLS connections with Informix
Use transport layer security (TLS) to create secure connections from Informix clients to the integrated Informix database server deployed on IBM® Cloud Pak for Data.
Custom TLS certificate
You may want to use your own TLS certificate for the encryption of database connections.
Retrieving the Informix port number
This sub-section explains how to obtain port information to connect to an Informix instance.
Configuring the Informix NodePort with an Ingress controller
If you use an external infrastructure node to route external Informix traffic into the Red Hat® OpenShift® cluster, the cluster might be in a private zone and you need to configure an external-facing Ingress controller to route the traffic to the OpenShift nodes.

Parent topic: Post-installation setup for Informix