# DB2 Driver for Mac

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/db2-driver-for-mac/143090>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [July 15, 2008, 3:56am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/db2-driver-for-mac/143090 "2008-07-15T03:56:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![smitty26](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@smitty26](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/smitty26)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2008, 3:56am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/db2-driver-for-mac/143090/1 "2008-07-15T03:56:35Z")

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I’ve been developing Rails applications using windows and am slowly  
transitioning to a Mac but face a slight problem; our back-end uses  
the AS/400. My question is, what are others doing to connect to an AS/  
400, is there an IBM DB2 Driver for Mac’s I’m unaware of? Any  
feedback is appreciated.  
Thanks

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**Author:** ![smitty26](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@smitty26](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/smitty26)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2008, 4:17am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/db2-driver-for-mac/143090/2 "2008-07-15T04:17:05Z")

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Linux is the only other platform that I am aware of that is supported by  
IBM  
regarding DB2. I have the same problem and develop for DB2 on Linux. One  
solution I’ve used in the past is to run a linux VM on my mac. Good  
luck.

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**Author:** ![smitty26](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@smitty26](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/smitty26)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2008, 1:57pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/db2-driver-for-mac/143090/3 "2008-07-15T13:57:08Z")

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The word on the street (at IDUG in May) is that IBM will release DB2  
Express-C  
for the Mac (for development only) around September (dates not  
guaranteed).

In the meantime you’d need to use Windows or Linux (even inside VMWare  
on Mac)  
but not native Mac.

HTH

Phil

On Tuesday 15 July 2008 02:56:03 smitty26 wrote:

> I’ve been developing Rails applications using windows and am slowly  
> transitioning to a Mac but face a slight problem; our back-end uses  
> the AS/400. My question is, what are others doing to connect to an AS/  
> 400, is there an IBM DB2 Driver for Mac’s I’m unaware of? Any  
> feedback is appreciated.  
> Thanks

–  
Philip N.  
ScotDB Limited  
(removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid)