document updated a day ago, on Jul 25, 2025
Installation is a bit of a pain.
How to install:
- Download the SQL Workbench/J zip and manually extract it to something like
C:\Program Files (x86)\SQLWorkbench-J
(no spaces!)
- If it's not installed yet, download and install the Java SE Development Kit (JDK)
- It should be in a folder named something like
C:\Program Files\Java\jdk-24\
- Use these instructions to change the system-wide environment variables.
- Set
JAVA_HOME
to be something like C:\Program Files\Java\jdk-24\bin\
- Double-click
SQLWorkbench64.exe
to start it.
- You'll probably want to "Pin to Start" on that .exe also.
downloading JDBC drivers
(the official documentation is here)
These should be extracted and placed into the subfolder C:\Program Files (x86)\SQLWorkbench-J\JDBC Drivers\
.
- DB2 driver ("db2jcc4.jar")