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IBM Informix to Workday integration — real-time, two-way sync

Keep IBM Informix and Workday in sync without custom scripts. Cut weeks of integration work, eliminate silent data drift, and give your team a single, reliable source of truth.

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Why teams connect IBM Informix and Workday

Work with Workday's financial data straight from IBM Informix: read it with ordinary queries, write to it from your own code, and let Stacksync keep both sides consistent.

Engineers need finance data more often than finance systems make it easy to get: for internal tools, reporting services, or logic that reacts to invoices and payments. Working through the vendor API means rate limits, pagination, and glue code that has to be maintained forever.

Stacksync mirrors Positions, Compensation, Time Off and Absence, Payroll Results from Workday into Stored procedures, Logical logs, Databases, Tables in IBM Informix and keeps the two in sync bi-directionally and in real time. Your services read finance records with normal queries against IBM Informix, and rows your code writes or updates flow back into Workday with validation, so the finance system stays the system of record.

Common use cases

  • 01 Replicate worker, organization, and compensation data into a secured database for people analytics without giving analysts tenant access.
  • 02 Push completed payroll results into a finance system or data warehouse each pay cycle.
  • 03 Keep embedded or edge Informix instances aligned with a central operational database.
  • 04 Feed inventory and transaction data from legacy Informix applications into modern ERPs during migration.

Common sync patterns

Query finance data like any other data

Customers, invoices, and payments from Workday live in IBM Informix as regular tables or collections your team can join, index, and query.

Internal tools without API plumbing

Build dashboards and back-office tools directly on IBM Informix; Stacksync handles the API calls, rate limits, and retries against Workday.

Write back safely

Updates written to the synced tables in IBM Informix propagate into Workday, so automations can create or correct finance records without custom integration code.

What you can sync between IBM Informix and Workday

Representative objects on each side — any object or custom field can map to any target. Schemas are auto-detected; types are converted between the two systems.

IBM Informix objects Workday objects How this pairing syncs
Views Read-only projections used to shape outbound data. Customers and Invoices Financials receivables objects synced for billing visibility where Workday Financials is used. Views is specific to IBM Informix and Customers and Invoices to Workday — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
TimeSeries objects Informix's native time-series type, usually exposed to syncs through virtual tables. Journal Entries Accounting entries imported from external subledgers into Workday Financials. TimeSeries objects is specific to IBM Informix and Journal Entries to Workday — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Stored procedures Server-side logic sometimes invoked as part of write paths. Custom Reports (RaaS) Tenant-defined reports exposed as web service endpoints, often the practical read surface for syncs. Stored procedures is specific to IBM Informix and Custom Reports (RaaS) to Workday — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Logical logs The transaction log that Informix's CDC interface reads committed changes from. Workers The central HCM record covering employment, job, and personal data; the anchor of most syncs. Logical logs is specific to IBM Informix and Workers to Workday — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Databases Top-level containers that scope a sync connection. Organizations Supervisory and company hierarchies read to drive routing and reporting in other systems. Databases is specific to IBM Informix and Organizations to Workday — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Tables Relational tables mapped directly to sync targets. Positions Job seats synced with recruiting and planning tools. Tables is specific to IBM Informix and Positions to Workday — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.

How changes propagate between IBM Informix and Workday

Each direction of the sync is driven by what the source system can signal and what the destination accepts — detection, delivery, and expected latency below.

IBM Informix Workday Sub-second propagation

DetectionChanges in IBM Informix are captured at the source via change data capture — no polling loop against its API. Informix's Change Data Capture API reading committed changes from logical logs.

DeliveryEach detected change is written to Workday through its API, with automatic retries and rate-limit backoff.

Workday IBM Informix Interval-based propagation

DetectionStacksync polls Workday for changes on an incremental schedule, reading only records changed since the previous pass. Polling, including transaction-log criteria on SOAP operations to fetch objects changed since a given moment.

DeliveryEach detected change is applied to IBM Informix as a row-level write, with types converted between the two schemas.

Rate-limit considerations

  • IBM Informix: Bounded by server resources and session limits rather than an API quota.
What ships with IBM Informix ⇄ Workday

Connect IBM Informix and Workday for flexible, real-time data sync.

Real-time sync, workflow automation, event queues, EDI, and monitoring, for every IBM Informix–Workday connection.

Real-time

Two-way sync

Changes in IBM Informix or Workday instantly reflect in both systems. No stale data, no manual imports.

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever IBM Informix or Workday data changes, update records, fire webhooks, or kick off sequences without brittle API scripts.

At scale

Event queues

Handle millions of events per minute without losing a single IBM Informix or Workday record.

Observability

Monitoring

Track your IBM Informix ⇄ Workday sync health, view errors, and replay failed events in one click.

Trading partners

EDI

Transform legacy EDI complexity into simple database interactions between IBM Informix and Workday.

How the IBM Informix and Workday connectors work

IBM Informix

Integration surface
SQL over JDBC/ODBC drivers; DRDA connectivity is also supported
Authentication
Database credentials
Change detection
Informix's Change Data Capture API reading committed changes from logical logs; polling as a fallback
Capabilities
read · write · CDC
Rate limits
Bounded by server resources and session limits rather than an API quota.

Workday

Integration surface
SOAP Workday Web Services (WWS), a REST API, and Reports-as-a-Service (RaaS) endpoints for custom reports
Authentication
OAuth 2.0 for the REST API; integration system users with WS-Security or certificate-based auth for SOAP
Change detection
Polling, including transaction-log criteria on SOAP operations to fetch objects changed since a given moment; no general webhook surface
Capabilities
read · write
How it works

How to connect IBM Informix to Workday — three steps, no code

Configure and sync within minutes, no code. Whether you sync 50k or 100M+ records, Stacksync handles the queues, infra, and plumbing. Integrations are non-invasive and need zero setup on your systems.

  1. 01

    Connect your apps

    Authenticate IBM Informix and Workday with each platform's native method — OAuth, API keys, or service accounts — plus secure options like SSH tunneling, IP whitelisting, and VPC peering.

    • OAuth 2.0
    • SSH tunnel
    • VPC peering
    IBM Informix connected
    Workday connected
    OAuth 2.0
    SSH tunnel
    SSL certificate
    VPC peering
  2. 02

    Choose tables

    Pick the IBM Informix and Workday objects to sync — Stacksync auto-detects both schemas, including custom fields where the platform exposes them. Sync to existing tables, or let Stacksync create new ones with ideal data types.

    • Standard objects
    • Custom objects
    • Auto-schema
    objects · IBM Informix ⇄ Workday
    Customers 12,480
    Sales Orders 8,213
    Invoices 5,902
    Items 1,344
  3. 03

    Map fields

    Fields map automatically even when names and types differ. Stacksync handles transformation and type casting for you, zero configuration required.

    • Auto-map
    • Type casting
    • Transforms
    IBM Informix Workday
    Company company_name text
    Email email text
    Amount amount numeric
    Created created_at timestamp
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Alerts

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Secure connection options

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