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Status Under review
Workspace Db2
Components Db2 Container
Created by Guest
Created on Apr 17, 2025

DB2 Database Server/Container for arm64 linux

Currently the db2 database provided by the community edition only supports the following operating systems/architectures:
* Microsoft Windows (x64)
* Linux (x64)
* Linux (IBM Z)
* Linux (Power PC)
* IBM AIX

This means that running the database on any arm64 machine (via a container) is painfully slow due to the need for x64 to arm64 emulation.

It'd be amazing to have a version of the db2 database that runs on arm64 linux. This would greatly speed up local development times. Thank you for all the support y'all provide!!

Needed By Yesterday (Let's go already!)
  • Guest
    Jun 11, 2026

    Hi @Siji Daniel,

    * This is only for local development on developer machines (which are arm64 based), there is no need to deploy this container to any environment. It will simply be pulled and run via docker. Specifically, we'd like to pull an arm64 variant of icr.io/db2_community/db2

    * We don't need any additional features added to the existing icr.io/db2_community/db2 image - it works fine for our needs, it's just slow b/c we have to use virtualization (amd64 -> arm64) to run it

    * I don't think this is a duplicate of https://ibm-data-and-ai.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/DB24LUW-I-2080 - that seems to be a request related to the DB2 drivers/python packages used to connect to DB2. This pertains to actually running the community edition of a DB2 database

  • Admin
    Siji Daniel
    May 25, 2026

    Hello @Guest - we are assessing this feature request. We need some information to evaluate the scope of the feature request.

    Could you tell us more about the usecases/environments in which this feature will be most useful?
    How do you deploy Db2? On-premises or Cloud environment? If on cloud, which cloud provider?
    Containerized or non-containerized? Would having ARM64 Linux remove the need for container deployments of Db2 in your environment?
    Single node, pureScale, or partitioned database (DPF)?
    Do you HADR set up - if so, in what form?

    Thank you for the input.

  • Admin
    Siji Daniel
    Apr 17, 2025

    Thank you for submitting your request. We are reviewing this. Please expect an update in the portal within 90 days.
    Thank you.