Comments on: DB2 on Mac

By: Todd Burch

Todd Burch — Sat, 31 May 2008 03:31:04 +0000

So, Leon mentioned at IDUG in Dallas last week that we’re looking at this for later this fall, on Leopard only?

I can deal with that!

By: Sven

Sven — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 18:56:53 +0000

Antonio, so they are still working on it, that’s good news. I hate to ruin my Mac by installing windows on it. I have enough of that crap at work. You had a post earlier in this thread where you said that CC will not ship for the Mac. I suppose there will be a GUI, what will it be, any info? Data Studio maybe?

By: Antonio Cangiano

Antonio Cangiano — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 04:25:24 +0000

At the moment Todd, that’s a good plan.

By: Todd Burch

Todd Burch — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 03:56:36 +0000

So, it’s sounding like if I’m going to be on Tiger a while, I might as well go ahead with VMware, pick another OS, and get Express-C?

By: Antonio Cangiano

Antonio Cangiano — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 20:14:52 +0000

@Badrul: Unfortunately, there is no workaround at the moment.

@Sven: I inquired with the team working on the project. It appears that there have been a few technical difficulties specific to OS X that made that “soon” further away than I initially thought at the time of my DB2 on Mac post. They are working on these issues in order to make DB2 work on Leopard. If I get any updates that I can disclose, I’ll make sure to post about them in my blog.

By: Sven

Sven — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 10:30:38 +0000

Good that it was not said which winter. And, now with global warming which means we are entering constant summer, does that mean……;-) Really, is this anywhere near public beta? We are now 7 months from where the first news appeared, or has IBM ditched this project.

By: Badrul

Badrul — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 07:37:17 +0000

I have RoR and db2 express-c installed in Ubuntu 7.10 and Windows machine. In Leopard, I’ve been successful in installing RoR using MacPorts up until the point of doing a ’sudo gem install ibm_db’ . Since I can’t install DB2 in Mac yet, I can’t do export IBM_DB etc yet in Leopard. Anyone know of a workaround for this yet ?

By: Matt G

Matt G — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 20:05:12 +0000

This is great! Please, please, please IBM….add support for WebSphere studio (or RSA) on OS X! Having to develop JEE on paralells (running windows) is blasphemous.

By: Stephan Meinl

Stephan Meinl — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 11:23:18 +0000

This is the best news this year and like a late christmas present. We are developing a knowledge management solution with ruby on rails. To kick the virtual machine and run db2 on native os x would be a pleasure. Can’t await the beta. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

By: Antonio Cangiano

Antonio Cangiano — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 16:47:53 +0000

Chad:

require 'ibm_db'

conn_string = "DRIVER={IBM DB2 ODBC DRIVER};DATABASE=sample; \
  HOSTNAME=localhost;PORT=60000;PROTOCOL=TCPIP;UID=db2inst1;PWD=db2password;"
  
conn = IBM_DB::connect(conn_string, '', '')

if conn
  puts "Connection succeded."
  IBM_DB::close(conn)
else
  puts "Connection failed."
  puts IBM_DB::conn_errormsg
end

Change conn_string as it suits you.