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Status Planned for future release
Created by Guest
Created on Jun 26, 2023

Support for Mac M1/M2 users running OnPrem containers.

On Version: IBM Sterling OMS V10
Fix Pack: 37 (10.0.2209.2)

When running the Fixpack 37 in the local docker environment, the SMCFS container is getting terminated with error code 255.


While investigating the issue, found that this is due to running the container using AMD64 image on Mac M1 (which is on ARM64 architecture).


Apple M1 was released 2 years ago in late 2021. Intel-based MACs are no longer available for sale from Apple. Docker desktop and other images that we use are already available in ARM64, but OMS OnPrem containers from IBM still do not support ARM64. It is impacting the development process currently.

What is your industry? Non-Industry Specific
How will this idea be used?

The development community that uses Macbook M1/M2 can run OMS OnPrem containers without any issues.