Introduction
IBM® InfoSphere® DataStage® provides several ways to access Informix® databases. The following sections provide an introduction to the Informix connectivity stages. The second half of the chapter covers installation instructions and configuration information.
Although this book contains several stages specifically designed to access Informix databases, you can also access them by using the Dynamic Relational Stage (DRS). Use this stage to create a job that requires one relational database at design time and another at runtime. For more information about this stage, see Dynamic RDBMS stage.
InfoSphere DataStage allows you to read data from or write data to Informix databases. This guide describes how to use the Informix CLI, Informix enterprise, Informix Load, and Informix XPS Load stages in InfoSphere DataStage and QualityStage Designer jobs.
You have the option to install these connectivity stages automatically when you install InfoSphere DataStage. They appear in the Database category on the server job palette.
This information is intended for
- InfoSphere DataStage designers who create or modify jobs that use Informix CLI, Informix enterprise, Informix Load, and Informix XPS Load stages
- InfoSphere DataStage administrators who install or upgrade InfoSphere DataStage.