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Workspace Db2
Components Db2 Connect and Drivers
Created by Guest
Created on Apr 5, 2022

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Apple Silicon / M1 / M2 / M3 Support for IBM ODBC/CLI Driver

As a developer on macOS with an Apple Silicon chip, I want to use the IBM ODBC/CLI Driver (downloadable from here) natively. Emulating is possible but since I am using this driver via Python, all my other Python code now needs to run emulated as well.

Background: I am connecting with an IBM DB2 database via a Python app, using the python-ibmdb library. There is a corresponding issue on their GitHub repository but the root cause of not being able to use python-ibmdb is that the IBM ODBC/CLI Driver is not compiled for Apple Silicon / ARM architecture.

Further background: M1 has been around for a year and is now the default architecture for new Macs. More and more people are getting Apple Silicon Macs so this issue will not go away but rather become more pressing over time.

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  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Dec 3, 2024

    Amazing! Thanks @Vijaya.

    Does anyone have a direct link to the 64bit ODBC arm64 driver? I can't seem to find it on fixcentral

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Dec 2, 2024

    Hi,

    I see the status changed to delivered and we are able to use the nodeJs module. Thanks a lot!

    However, the python libary is still from march 23 - can you please also update the pip module to 3.3.0?

    Thanks in advance

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Nov 19, 2024

    We are planning to release ARM support for open source drivers including python packages in pypi by Jan 2025 or before.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Nov 18, 2024

    Thanks Vijaya, perhaps a silly question, but how can folks test the development release, whilst we wait for it to be made generally available ? Thanks in advance, Dave


  • Admin
    VIJAYA KATIKIREDDY
    Reply
    |     Nov 18, 2024

    Will leave it in "Development" until open source drivers are updated.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Nov 15, 2024

    Hi,
    thanks for delivering. Any plans for updating the Python packages on pypi?

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Nov 15, 2024

    Only ARM driver binaries are available for MAC from 12.1 release. So one can use 12.1 driver binaries for ARM architecture machines(M1/M2/M3) and 11.5 driver binaries for INTEL architecture machines. On November 14th 2024, all drivers except open source drivers(Python, Go, Node.js etc) for 12.1 are released. Open Source drivers also will be released in sometime as it will have the work of uploading the 12.1 ARM odbc/cli binaries for opensource and building the open source drivers with arm64 odbc/cli binaries.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Nov 15, 2024

    I have downloaded the new Db2 12.1 Data Server Driver for macOS.

    While I am happy to report that it works on a Mac with an M1 chip, it looks like IBM didn't build universal binaries – so the drivers support ONLY M1 chips.  Developers working on currently supported machines using Intel chips (like a 2019 MacBook Pro) will be out of luck:
     

    $ sw_vers
ProductName:		macOS
ProductVersion:		15.1
BuildVersion:		24B83


$ /tmp/clidriver/bin/db2level
-bash: /tmp/clidriver/bin/db2level: Bad CPU type in executable


$ file /tmp/clidriver/bin/db2level
/tmp/clidriver/bin/db2level: Mach-O 64-bit executable arm64

     

    2 steps forward, 1 step back.  <sigh>

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Nov 14, 2024

    I am still not able to download the Python Library to connect to DB2 on my Mac. Link shared by you is only for ODBC connection. Above idea was rasied for the same. but look like it is still not addressed


    Attaching the error i am getting while install IBM_DB package



    ╰─ pip install ibm_db ─╯
    Collecting ibm_db
    Downloading ibm_db-3.2.3.tar.gz (210 kB)
    ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 210.2/210.2 kB 1.9 MB/s eta 0:00:00
    Installing build dependencies ... done
    Getting requirements to build wheel ... error
    error: subprocess-exited-with-error

    × Getting requirements to build wheel did not run successfully.
    │ exit code: 1
    ╰─> [2 lines of output]
    Detected 64-bit Python
    Arm64 architecture is not supported. Please install intel-only (x64) version of python and then install ibm_db.
    [end of output]

    note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
    error: subprocess-exited-with-error

    × Getting requirements to build wheel did not run successfully.
    │ exit code: 1
    ╰─> See above for output.

    note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.

    4 replies
  • Admin
    VIJAYA KATIKIREDDY
    Reply
    |     Nov 14, 2024

    https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/download-db2-121-clients-and-drivers

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Nov 14, 2024

    Where can i download this new db2 odbc/cli driver from? (can't see new Nov 14 release of driver yet, just older ones).
    Can't wait to try it!

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Nov 14, 2024

    I'm having trouble finding the new 12.1 driver. I think new drivers are not available at https://public.dhe.ibm.com/ibmdl/export/pub/software/data/db2/drivers/odbc_cli/ . Please share a link where I can download the driver.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Nov 14, 2024

    Vijaya, I still don't see the apple Silicon driver released with the GA. If possible please share the link for Python Driver

  • Admin
    VIJAYA KATIKIREDDY
    Reply
    |     Nov 14, 2024

    Db2 12.1 is released today as committed.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Nov 14, 2024

    I still dont see the driver supporting this on MacOS running on Apple sillicon. I waited for 14 Nov, but looks like IBM is yet to release it. Any link from where we can download this?

  • Admin
    VIJAYA KATIKIREDDY
    Reply
    |     Oct 18, 2024

    Hi Rishabh - no change in schedule; GA for Db2 12.1 is November 14. This item is tested and ready to make it.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Aug 29, 2024

    Need this now please - even a beta release?

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Aug 23, 2024

    especially when you're rolling out macos apple silicon laptops to all your developers, but want us to still use db2

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Aug 1, 2024

    Make it so @IBM. Most developers running macOS are on Apple Silicon now.

  • Admin
    VIJAYA KATIKIREDDY
    Reply
    |     Jul 18, 2024

    In plan for November release and making good progress.

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