IBM Informix connection

To access your data in an IBM Informix database, create a connection asset for it.

IBM Informix is a database that contains relational, object-relational, or dimensional data. You can use the Informix connection to access data from an on-prem Informix database server or from IBM Informix on Cloud.

Supported Informix versions (on-prem)

  • Informix 14.10 and later. This version does not support the Progress DataDirect JDBC driver, which is used by the Informix connection. The Informix connection supports Informix 14.10 features that are comparable to previous Informix versions, but not the new features. Issues related to DataDirect's JDBC driver are not supported.
  • Informix 12.10 and later
  • Informix 11.0 and later
  • Informix 10.0 and later
  • Informix 9.2 and later

Create a connection to Informix

To create the connection asset, you need these connection details:

  • Name of the database server
  • Name of the database
  • Hostname or IP address of the database
  • Port number (Default is 1526)
  • Username and password

For Credentials, you can use secrets if a vault is configured for the platform and the service supports vaults. For information, see Using secrets from vaults in connections.

Choose the method for creating a connection based on where you are in the platform

In a project
Click Assets > New asset > Connect to a data source. See Adding a connection to a project.
In a deployment space
Click Add to space > Connection. See Adding connections to a deployment space.
In the Platform assets catalog
Click New connection. See Adding platform connections.

Next step: Add data assets from the connection

Where you can use this connection

You can use Informix connections in the following workspaces and tools:

Projects

  • Decision Optimization (Watson Studio and Watson Machine Learning)
  • Notebooks (Watson Studio). Click Read data on the Code snippets pane to get the connection credentials and load the data into a data structure. See Load data from data source connections.
  • SPSS Modeler (SPSS Modeler service)
  • Synthetic Data Generator (Synthetic Data Generator service)

Catalogs

  • Platform assets catalog

Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) compliance

  • 4.8.0 and 4.8.1: This connection is compliant with FIPS if you installed Cloud Pak for Data on or prior to January, 22, 2024. However, the connection is not compliant if it requires SSL.
  • 4.8.2 and later: This connection is not compliant with FIPS, but it is FIPS-tolerant.

Informix setup

To set up Informix, see these topics:

Running SQL statements

To ensure that your SQL statements run correctly, refer to the Guide to SQL: Syntax in the product documentation for the correct syntax.

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Parent topic: Supported connections