Creating the user mappings for an Informix data source

When you attempt to access an Informix® server, the federated server establishes a connection to the Informix server by using a user ID and password that are valid for that data source. You must define an association (a user mapping) between each federated server user ID and password and the corresponding data source user ID and password.

About this task

Create a user mapping for each user ID that will access the federated system to send distributed requests to the Informix data source.

Procedure

Issue a CREATE USER MAPPING statement.

For example:

CREATE USER MAPPING FOR local_userID SERVER server_definition_name
       OPTIONS (REMOTE_AUTHID 'remote_userID', REMOTE_PASSWORD 'remote_password');

Although the REMOTE_AUTHID and REMOTE_PASSWORD variables are specified as options in the CREATE USER MAPPING statement, these options are required to access Informix data sources.