IBM Informix Connection

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IBM Informix is a powerful, enterprise-level relational database management system (RDBMS) that offers high-performance data management and analytics capabilities for a wide range of applications.

This topic describes how to authenticate to IBM Informix and configure any necessary connection properties in the IBM Informix connection connector.

Connection Configuration #

Each connection property available in the IBM Informix connector is explained below.

Connection Name #

The name of the connection to be created should be provided. This is the name that will display on the list of available connections.

Connection Type #

Option to choose between either connecting securely using SSH Tunnel or, proceed with a Direct Connection when connecting to IBM Informix.

If Connection Type value is SSH Tunnel, additional fields will be displayed.

To know more about SSH Tunneling with Gathr, see SSH Tunneling

SSH Tunnel #

If SSH Tunnel is selected, additional configuration parameters will get listed.

SSH Key #

The SSH key should be provided to authenticate the associated SSH host and SSH user.

SSH Host #

Public IP address of your SSH host.

SSH User #

Default SSH username.

If Connection Type value is Direct Connection, then proceed by updating the following fields.

Server #

The name of the IBM Informix server.

This property should be set to the name or network address of the server hosting the Informix database.

Port #

The port used to connect to the server hosting the database.

Default value is “50000”.

User #

The username of a user authorized to access the database.

Password #

The password provided for authentication with the database.

Database #

The name of the Informix database running on the specified Server.

Advanced Configuration #

This section contains advanced configuration parameters.

DB Locale #

This property specifies what Charset/Encoding will be used to parse table data.

If this property is set to NULL or empty, the SQLDAGRP.SQLCCSID will be used as default Charset/Encoding.

SwitchMode #

This property allows you to specify a switching mode to select a server from AlternateServers as the active server.

There are three switching modes available:

• None: Always use the default server.

• Failover: When the active server cannot be accessed, another server in AlternateServers will be used as the active server.

• LoadBalance: This option includes the feature of “Failover”. In addition, the active server will also be changed after a transcation is committed.

Switch Strategy #

This property allows you to specify a switching strategy to select a server from AlternateServers as the active server.

There are three switching strategies available:

• Sequence: Always use the next server in AlternateServers as the active server.

• Random: Use a random server in AlternateServers as the active server.

• BestResponse: Always use the server with the shortest response time.

Enable SSL #

Option for creating the connection with SSL enabled.

Upload Keystore File #

Option to upload keystore file.

Add Configuration: Additional properties can be added using this option as key-value pairs.

After entering all the details, click on the TEST button.

If the connection service identification and authentication details are provided correctly, a success message stating “connection available” is generated.

Click on the CREATE button to save the changes.

If the details are incorrect or the server is down, you will get a message “Connection unavailable”.