[keycloak-user] IBM DB2 not supported anymore?

Hynek Mlnarik hmlnarik at redhat.com
Wed Jul 11 04:37:14 EDT 2018


While we would love to support variety of databases, the maintenance cost
in non-zero and our survey has shown that DB2 is not popular among Keycloak
users while inadequately increasing maintenance cost. Hence we had to take
a pragmatic step to drop its support in 4.x.

On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 3:00 PM Manfred Duchrow <manfred.duchrow at caprica.biz>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> in issue https://issues.jboss.org/browse/KEYCLOAK-7519 Stian added a
> comment saying
>
>   "Rejecting this as we removed support for DB2 in 4.x. DB2 had very few
> users
>    and was by far the most time consuming to maintain."
>
> Is it true that DB2 will not be supported anymore?
> Where has it been announced? I cannot find anything in documentation,
> release notes or blogs
> or user list mentioning it.
>
> I think you shouldn't drop support for DB2. It is a major enterprise
> database and many companies
> are using it.
>
> Cheers,
>     Manfred
>
>
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