Recently IBM has released the new Informix version 14.10xC11.

Unfortunately the IBM Java running the „License Installer“ is not included in the database any more.

The „License Installer“ is required in order to select the needed Informix Edition (eg. EXPRESS, Workgroup Edition, Enterprise etc.).

If there is no selection done Informix runs in the Developer Edition modus. Due to restrictions regarding RAM, cores and high availability this type of edition is not suitable for productive environments.

The user has to download the required Java on his own. Because of the omission of the IBM Java in combination with unclear statements regarding the usability of  recommended Java versions there have been some irritations leading to installation problems.

IBM recommends Java JRE (= Java 1.8.0) or any higher version – which is only half the story.

Besides Java 8 suitable versions are:

• Java 11 or higher than 11.0.10 or
• Java 17 or higher than 17.0.7

Using the last two Java versions you must set the additional java option to command line before the -jar option.:

-Djdk.util.zip.disableZip64ExtraFieldValidation=true

Please note: due to our experience Java 22 does not work!

To be on the safe side we recommend to use Java 8, 11 or 17.