IBM Informix Spatial Reader/Writer

FME reads and writes spatial and attribute data inside Informix databases.

Informix Spatial can read from databases that are spatially enabled, but the tables may or may not have spatial information stored.

IBM Informix Non-Spatial Product and System Requirements

Note Informix Connect software must be installed on the same machine as FME. FME accesses live databases via the Informix Connect driver.

Format	Product			Operating System
Reader/Writer	FME Desktop License	FME Server	FME Cloud	Windows 64-bit	Linux	Mac
Reader	Available in FME Professional Edition and higher	Yes	No	Yes	No	No
Writer	Available in FME Database Edition and higher	Yes	No	Yes	No	No

Reader Overview

FME considers an Informix Spatial dataset to be a database containing a collection of relational tables together with their geometry. The tables to be read are defined in the workspace. Arbitrary WHERE clauses are supported.

Writer Overview

The Informix Spatial writer module stores both geometry and attributes into spatially-enabled Informix databases. The Informix Spatial writer provides the following capabilities:

Table Creation: The Database writer uses the information within the FME workspace to automatically create database tables as needed.
Coordinate System: Checks for a coordinate system and if a matching one is not found, then it will create one automatically. The matching criteria is the OGC WKT definition of the coordinate system.