Announcement

The product announcement letters are available at http://www.ibm.com/common/ssi/index.wss. Search for Informix 12.10 and select Announcement letters. See the announcement for the following information:

• Detailed product description
• Product-positioning statement
• Packaging and ordering details
• International compatibility information

IMPORTANT:

• HP-UX Itanium End of Support

HP is ending support for the Itanium processor and the HP-UX operating system. The fix-pack 12.10.xC15W1 is the last fix-pack update for Informix on the HP-UX platform across all releases.
This End of Support includes Client SDK 4.10.xC15 on HP-UX.

• End of Support for IBM Java 7

IBM Informix 12.10, Client SDK 4.10 and Informix Warehouse Accelerator 12.10 version prior to xC16 included IBM Java 7 with the Installer. IBM Java 7 has reached the end of its service in 2022, and as a result there are no more maintenance releases for Java 7 (https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/java-sdk-lifecycle-dates). Because of this, and the open vulnerabilities which will not be addressed (https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/java-sdk-security-vulnerabilities) we are moving to IBM Java 8, which is the version included in IBM Informix 14.10.

• Minimum OS Levels for Java 8

Java 8 minimum OS Levels are newer than the original 12.10 OS minimums. The 12.10.16 OS Level minimum will now match that of Java 8, where IBM Java 8 is available. Please refer to Informix system requirement document at https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/informix-server-system-requirements.

• Beyond Java 8

IBM Java 8 will continue to be supported with maintenance releases at least until April of 2025 (see java-ds-lifecycle-dates above). On or before that EOS date we plan to stop shipping Java with Informix 14.10 and allow customers to provide their own Java. We will announce changes to the required Java level in future releases.

Since IBM can no longer provide security fixes for JAVA 7, and Java 8 will reach end of support date in 2025, IBM will no longer bundle Java with future release of Informix.  Customers will have to download and install a supported Java version from their own vendor:

• Informix 12.10.xC16 will have Java 8 bundled; any later fix packs on Version 12 will not have JAVA bundled, but will support Java 8.
• Informix 14.10.xC10 has Java 8 bundled presently, later fix packs on Version 14 will not have JAVA bundled, but will support at least Java 11.
• Informix 15 will not have Java bundled, but will be requiring Java 17.

PLATFORMS WITHDRAWN FROM SERVICE:

The following platforms are being discontinued due to lack of support for Java 8 (and no longer supported by vendor):

Platform: Linux Intel

Platform: Linux - IBM POWER (Big Endian)

Hardware: IBM POWER (System p, System i, POWER Blades)
Note: The following codes are used in this table:
F = 64-bit
RHEL: Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Platform: Linux - IBM Z

Hardware: IBM eServer z Systems
Note: The following codes are used in this table:
F = 64-bit
RHEL: Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Platform: Windows

Hardware: Intel x86, x64 (AMD AMD64, Intel EM64T)
Note: The following codes are used in this table:
T = 32-bit on Windows platforms
F = 64 bit on x64 (AMD AMD64, Intel EM64T)

Platform: Mac OS X

Hardware: Intel EM64T
Note: The following code is used in this table:
F = 64-bit

This is a slight exception to the JAVA issue in that presently it is an Apple unsupported version of MAC OS X and this O/S has been withdrawn from service and support by Apple (no security updates since 2015). Therefore, 12.10.FC15 is the last version of Informix available for any MAC OS X platform and it is no longer on a supported O/S. We may at a future date withdraw all binaries available for this platform as a result. There are presently no plans for further development on MAC OS X at this time.

PLATFORMS WITH JAVA SUPPORT LEVEL CHANGES:

Other platforms below, support level changes in yellow indicating a minimum of a Java 8 support level and other requirements unless otherwise noted:

The minimum OS level for Java 8 has raised the 12.10 Minimum OS level.  These minimum OS levels are not necessarily supported by vendor, so newer version would be needed for support.

https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/sdk-java-technology/8?topic=installing-supported-environments

https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/informix-server-system-requirements

The following platforms highlighted in yellow have upgraded minimum versions for JAVA 8.

Platform: IBM AIX

Platform: Linux Intel

Platform: Linux - IBM POWER (Big Endian)

Hardware: IBM POWER (System p, System i, POWER Blades)
Note: The following codes are used in this table:
F = 64-bit
RHEL: Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Platform: Linux - IBM POWER (Little Endian)

Hardware: IBM POWER8® for ppc64le
Note: The following codes are used in this table:
F = 64-bit
RHEL: Red Hat Enterprise Linux for PPCle64 Linux, the P7 hardware/OS is not supported by Java 8.  You must be on Power 8 or above.

Platform: Linux - IBM Z

Hardware: IBM eServer z Systems
Note: The following codes are used in this table:
F = 64-bit
RHEL: Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Platform: Solaris SPARC

Hardware: SPARC
Informix is supported with or without Zones.

Note: The following codes are used in this table:
F = 64-bit
U = 32-bit (Clients, Customer must provide their own Java)

Prerequisite: IBM is not supplying 32-bit  Java 8. 

Customers must supply their own Java 8 to install the 32-bit product.

Platform: Solaris x64

Hardware: AMD, AMD64, Intel EM64T
Informix is supported with or without Zones.

Note: The following code is used in this table:
F = 64-bit

U = 32-bit (Clients, Customer must provide their own Java)

Prerequisite: IBM is not supplying 32-bit  Java 8. 

Customers must supply their own Java 8 to install the 32-bit product.

Platform: Windows

Hardware: Intel x86, x64 (AMD AMD64, Intel EM64T)
Note: The following codes are used in this table:
T = 32-bit on Windows platforms
F = 64 bit on x64 (AMD AMD64, Intel EM64T)