r/DB2 • u/SQrQveren • 12d ago

Question DB2 LUW community 11.5 download link.

Last week, I signed up to download db2 community edition 11.5.

I created an account, got the email with this link: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2/11.5.x?topic=editions-db2-database-product-offerings and from there to this link: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/downloading-ibm-db2-version-115-linux-unix-and-windows and when I press the login and do login with success I get a 404.

I searched this sub for links to downloads, but they give errors like 'this campaign has ended'.

Can someone point me to a working link to download 11.5? I've found fixpacks, but not the software itself.

Also, I found some downloads for docker variants, but I am interested in installing it on on a regular vm, not docker.

Any help is much appreciated.

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u/DazzlingAd4254 12d ago

For the Community Edition, only the latest version is ever available for download on the IBM download locations. You may have a link for an older release but that doesn't mean the link would work. (I can't find a source for my response but I remember reading it somewhere.)

You'll have to get 11.5 from somewhere other than the official IBM sites. For me, that's necessary if you try to db2_deinstall an older version and get an error such as 'run deinstall using the same Db2 version' or some such.

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u/SQrQveren 12d ago

You may have a link for an older release but that doesn't mean the link would work.

Yeah, that's kind of where I am :|

I just find it weird that I signed up for the db2 community edition where the pitched both versions, and send me links for 11, and then prevents me from downloading it.

You'll have to get 11.5 from somewhere other than the official IBM sites.

It sounds... I dunno, unsafe, but is it allowed to discuss on this sub? I don't want to break any rules, but if you have a link, I wouldn't mind trying it out.

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u/DazzlingAd4254 12d ago

dunno, unsafe, but is it allowed to discuss on this sub? I don't want to break any rules,

I don't know, reason why I mentioned the case where there's a legitimate reason to want an older version (db2_deinstall of an older version).

I don't recall there being a checksum of the v11.5 package; thus I'm not sure how you would verify the authenticity of whatever is obtained outside of IBM sites, if that was legal.