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Miguel Peralta posted 02/11/26 09:04 PM

Hello, I'm trying to connect a Windows client to an IBM server. I'm getting a lot of errors that I need to analyze, but what's particularly concerning is that it ends up giving me this message: SQL1598N An attempt to connect to the database server failed due to a licensing issue. SQLSTATE=42968. I'm going to install the latest ACS ODBC driver to see if that resolves the issue, but I'm wondering which license it's referring to? Or what the solution would be? Thanks.

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Marius le Roux IBM Champion posted 02/12/26 02:04 AM

Miguel , 

Are you using DB2 Connect by anychance to connect to IBM i ? 

If so , you need to check the Licence file in the correct path : https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/sql1598n-error-connecting-mainframe-db2-ibm-data-server-driver-even-though-db2-connect-license-file-exists-license-directory-install-path

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