IBM Informix Client SDK continues as a supporting
program for IBM Informix Editions

(IBM Announcement ENUSZP15-0265 - 31.03.2015)

Informix Client SDK is a supporting program for Informix database servers in the following Informix editions: Informix Advanced Enterprise Edition, Informix
Enterprise Edition, Informix Advanced Developer Edition, Informix Workgroup Edition, Informix Advanced Workgroup Edition, and Informix Express(R) Edition.

Customers with these Informix servers under a support contract are entitled to obtain support for Client SDK as part of their server support when Informix Client SDK is used to access the Informix server.

A previous announcement that removed Client SDK as a supporting program from some server versions, Software Announcement ZP11-0567, dated December 13, 2011, is decommitted.

You are entitled to obtain support for Client SDK at or above the version specified in your server license when Informix Client SDK is used to access the Informix server.

The Client SDK product will continue to be available as part of the Hosting products.
The code was never pulled from the DVDs that make up the Informix product orderables.

IBM Informix Advanced Developer Edition V12.10

(IBM Announcement ENUSZP14-0452 - 19.08.2014)

The Advanced Developer Edition V12.10, based on IBM® Informix® Advanced Enterprise Edition V12.10, is licensed in a way that matches requirements for preproduction development activities. Specifically, it is licensed to use the Authorized User metric so that a customers can name users to do the pre-production activities, such as testing, performance evaluation, and quality assurance, before deploying applications in production based on Informix.

Effective May, 2013, Informix is no longer included in the Database Developer Edition. For details, refer to Software Announcement ZP13-0191, dated March 26, 2013. This new edition provides both a path for new customers of Informix and previous customers who use the Database Developer Edition want to move to the latest Informix edition. As needed, existing entitlements of Database Developer Edition and associated support may be exchanged for Informix Advanced Developer Edition at a 1:1 Authorized User ratio.

The Informix Advanced Developer Edition contains the features of IBM Informix Advanced Enterprise Edition with a new software license that restricts usage to nonproduction
activities. On an Authorized User basis, the license permits customers to evaluate and test all features of Informix.

IBM Software withdrawal for selected
DB2, InfoShere and Informix products

(IBM Announcement ENUSZP14-0059 - 14.01.2014)

Software withdrawal: IBM Informix Genero Runtime for Growth Edition, Redbrick Gold Bundles, C-ISAM Datablade, Data Director for Web, NET Concurrent Session, and Office Connect, IBM InfoSphere Warehouse Advanced Edition, and IBM HRF for DB2 Enterprise Server Edition

Withdrawal from marketing and/or support for selected parts:

• Informix Genero Runtime for Growth Edition
• Redbrick Gold Bundles
• EOM for C-ISAM Datablade
• IBM Informix Data Director for Web
• IBM Informix NET Concurrent Session
• IBM Informix Office Connect
• IBM InfoSphere Warehouse Advanced Edition
• IBM Homogeneous Federation Feature for DB2 Workgroup Server Edition
• IBM Base Warehouse Feature for DB2
• IBM Enterprise Warehouse Feature for DB2
• IBM DB2 Data Warehouse Base Edition
• IBM DB2 Warehouse Developer Edition
• IBM DB2 Warehouse Enterprise Edition
• IBM InfoSphere Warehouse Base Edition
• IBM InfoSphere Warehouse Enterprise Base Edition
• IBM InfoSphere Warehouse Developer Edition
• IBM InfoSphere Warehouse Enterprise Edition
• IBM InfoSphere Warehouse Departmental Based Edition
• IBM InfoSphere Warehouse Departmental Edition
• IBM InfoSphere Warehouse Advanced Departmental Edition
• IBM DB2 pureScale Feature
• IBM DB2 High Availability Feature for WSE
• IBM DB2 Query Optimization Feature for WSE
• IBM DB2 Storage Optimization Feature

Please read the announcement for part and product details.

IBM Informix  - Revised Software License Terms

(IBM Announcement ENUSZP13-0404 - 10.09.2013)

The terms and conditions in the software license for various Informix editions are revised to improve clarity and remove certain restrictions on the use of the products.

Informix Advanced Workgroup Edition:

• The Informix Warehouse Accelerator component can be used in conjunction with another Advanced edition.
• You can now use HDR, RSS, and SDS with the same terms that apply to Informix Workgroup Edition.
• Prohibited components are explicitly listed for clarity. In the previous license, the prohibited components could be found in the Informix Workgroup Edition license (a supporting program).
• The previous limit of 1600 in PVU pricing is lifted.

Informix Advanced Enterprise Edition:

The Informix Warehouse Accelerator component can be used in conjunction with another Advanced edition.

Informix Workgroup Edition, Informix Innovator-C Edition, Informix Express Edition:

Partitioning is no longer mentioned in the license. Partitioning entitlement remains enforced in the product, as before.

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