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Original idea poster here: I'm proud of us that today we have collected enough votes to put us on the front page of all IBM issues globally! Hopefully, IBM will soon have this fix released 🤞
Good to have this.
Having this support is becoming crucial for the application that I'm helping in develop, ARM use is broader now due Mac's and Linux support to it, I hope that IBM catches up with this situation soon.
We also need support for Linux with same architecture arm64. We are using Ubuntu virtual machines on Apple M1 laptops and can't install IBM iAccess ODBC driver on those.
Really need the Apple Silicon processor support. Trying to automate our IBM processes using python and this is a huge blocker. Please please please create a working package that we can utilize!!!!
We use this driver internally to IBM and cannot test our code on our laptops well without this support.
We are also very interested in this update.
Sorry that it is a pain point for many users. Update is that, it is on the roadmap for 2024.
Back in April '23, @VIJAYA KATIKIREDDY provided the last glimpse of any interaction regarding this matter. In only a few short months, that will make it 1 year since we've gotten a response. It's been "radio-silence" ever since.
I find the lack of a response insulting and disrespectful. Not just to developers, but ultimately to our customers who we are trying to serve.
Would it be that difficult to give us a regular status update? Or, should we be making our needs known in GitHub?
@VIJAYA KATIKIREDDY or ANYONE at IBM reading this thread, could you please at least respond to people's questions in this thread?
I'm not going to be asking "When will this be done?" any longer. From the lack of feedback this work is clearly at the bottom of the priority stack. Prove me wrong please!
Please make this a priority. Need a apple silicon version of the driver.
Dear IBM,
I would like to bring to your attention a critical issue that is causing significant difficulties for many individuals within Optum Services Inc, a US-based company. Currently, the company is exclusively providing M1 chip Mac OS PCs, which is posing challenges for users attempting to connect to IBM DB2 using node.js or Python on these systems.
This issue is negatively impacting productivity and hindering the smooth operation of various applications that rely on IBM DB2. I kindly request that you prioritize finding a solution to this problem as it is causing significant hardships for a large number of people.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
IBM needs to make this a priority. To date, they clearly have not.
Any ETA on this? We are not able to step debug at all with out a native compiled ODBC CLI driver for DB2.
When do you plan to release it ?
Hope they release this version soon.
Now using an M2 for development and it would be helpful if this driver were available.
Any ETA here? This is needed by many almost all developers I know are using M1 now.
Still no movement on this issue?
Very puzzling why IBM DB2 is one of the only DBs that is not accessible for developers using Apple Silicon (IE: Most developers with a relatively new Mac).
Not addressing this issue will drive an increasing number of developers/organizations away from using DB2 at all in the future as limiting developer access to critical data storage to those using specific chipsets/brands of laptops has a direct negative impact on development options and therefore poses an increasing negative impact on operations-facing applications over time. I can interact with every other data source our organization has in deployment with ease from an M1 Mac. But can I provide important updates and performance tweaks to applications running on DB2? Nope, have to spend days dealing with slow, unwieldy workarounds for that...
Let's move into the modern age here, please. Apple Silicon is not going anywhere. Maybe DB2 is becoming obsolete?
It has been 3 years since this came out. Since year 1, I have not come across a single application that did not support Apple Silicon other than this one. Honestly, at this point it's just embarrassing.
In our Company we use M2 MacbookAir and Pro and access to DB2 via Excel. I installed the whole lot, but then receive the information that its working on intel mac only. So we need to use shared desktop via. Citrix and that is not very fast.