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Oninit® Log Ripper — Unlock the Data Trapped in Informix

Your Informix database almost certainly runs something the business cannot afford to break. That's exactly why everything around it — analytics, cloud, customer-facing apps, regulatory reporting — keeps stalling. Replacing it is a multi-year program. Leaving the data inside it is a competitive cost.

Oninit® Log Ripper gives you a third option: leave Informix exactly where it is, and stream its changes in real time to wherever the business needs them.

The business case

  • Faster delivery. Projects that need Informix data — a new analytics platform, a cloud reporting layer, a customer 360 view — can move forward immediately, without waiting on a database migration or an application rewrite.
  • Lower risk. Log Ripper reads from the transaction log. It does not modify the production database, does not require triggers, and does not change application code. The system of record stays exactly as it is.
  • One tool, every modern destination. Native connectors for PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, and IBM Db2, plus Kafka, ODBC, and file-based formats — so you don't license a separate CDC platform per target.
  • Reduced cost vs. enterprise CDC platforms. Log Ripper is purpose-built for Informix and priced accordingly. There is no per-row metering and no proprietary message bus to license alongside it.
  • Optionality on migration. When you eventually do move off Informix, the same tool keeps the old and new systems synchronised during cutover — turning a high-risk weekend migration into a controlled, reversible switchover.

Why Oninit

Oninit has supported the global Informix community for two decades as "the Down System Specialists." Log Ripper is built and supported by the same team that recovers other people's Informix outages — the people who know the engine in the most demanding conditions production ever produces.

What it removes from your risk register

  • "We can't get our Informix data into the warehouse fast enough."
  • "Our reporting copy is hours behind the live system."
  • "We're locked into Informix because migration off it is too risky."
  • "Our CDC tool costs more than the database it reads from."

Next

The Features summary covers the full capability set; the Install guide shows what a proof-of-value deployment looks like.

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