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  • 1.  IBM iSeries DB2 ODBC driver for ARM based laptops

    Posted Tue July 01, 2025 09:35 AM

    I have two laptops. One is intel and the other is an ARM based one. On the intel series I am able to install and use the DB2 iSeries 64 bit driver. However on the ARM based laptop I am not able to create a System or a User DSN. The db2cli validate -dsn does work on the ARM based laptop. Is there a ARM specific ODBC driver available ?



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    Shreeni Rao
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  • 2.  RE: IBM iSeries DB2 ODBC driver for ARM based laptops

    Posted Tue July 01, 2025 12:44 PM

    ARM is a different architecture and instruction set than Intel; Microsoft ODBC administrator compiled using ARM instruction set is calling setup routine in Db2 ODBC driver compiled using INTEL instruction set; hence the system error 193.

    I doubt whether there is an IBM Db2 ODBC driver compiled using ARM instruction set nor whether there are any plans to create one - you may want to raise request using AHA process.



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    Jan Nelken
    Db2 (LUW) DBA
    HCLTech
    Katowice or Krakow
    +48 783 109 863
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  • 3.  RE: IBM iSeries DB2 ODBC driver for ARM based laptops

    Posted Tue July 01, 2025 02:20 PM
    You are correct.

    At the moment there is no driver for ARM processors.

    However there is hope.   With 12.1 there is at last a decent option for MacOS (Apple Silicon), driven by lots of requests.   So raising an AHA and getting it signed as widely as possible is a good thing.

    Phil



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