diff --git a/bom/application/pom.xml b/bom/application/pom.xml
index ea8ccaae734bf5..9d709fab83f3cd 100644
--- a/bom/application/pom.xml
+++ b/bom/application/pom.xml
@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@
         <adal4j.version>1.6.7</adal4j.version>
         <oracle-jdbc.version>23.5.0.24.07</oracle-jdbc.version>
         <derby-jdbc.version>10.16.1.1</derby-jdbc.version>
-        <db2-jdbc.version>11.5.8.0</db2-jdbc.version>
+        <db2-jdbc.version>12.1.0.0</db2-jdbc.version>
         <shrinkwrap.version>1.2.6</shrinkwrap.version>
         <hamcrest.version>2.2</hamcrest.version><!-- The version needs to be compatible with both REST Assured and Awaitility -->
         <junit.jupiter.version>5.10.5</junit.jupiter.version>
diff --git a/extensions/jdbc/jdbc-db2/deployment/pom.xml b/extensions/jdbc/jdbc-db2/deployment/pom.xml
index 505fc714932be7..6d0fb20af74365 100644
--- a/extensions/jdbc/jdbc-db2/deployment/pom.xml
+++ b/extensions/jdbc/jdbc-db2/deployment/pom.xml
@@ -52,11 +52,6 @@
             <artifactId>assertj-core</artifactId>
             <scope>test</scope>
         </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>org.eclipse.transformer</groupId>
-            <artifactId>org.eclipse.transformer</artifactId>
-            <version>0.5.0</version>
-        </dependency>
     </dependencies>
 
     <build>
diff --git a/extensions/jdbc/jdbc-db2/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/jdbc/db2/deployment/JakartaEnablement.java b/extensions/jdbc/jdbc-db2/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/jdbc/db2/deployment/JakartaEnablement.java
deleted file mode 100644
index ce8ec45c8ad26c..00000000000000
--- a/extensions/jdbc/jdbc-db2/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/jdbc/db2/deployment/JakartaEnablement.java
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,88 +0,0 @@
-package io.quarkus.jdbc.db2.deployment;
-
-import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
-import java.util.Collections;
-import java.util.List;
-import java.util.Map;
-
-import org.eclipse.transformer.action.ActionContext;
-import org.eclipse.transformer.action.ByteData;
-import org.eclipse.transformer.action.impl.ActionContextImpl;
-import org.eclipse.transformer.action.impl.ByteDataImpl;
-import org.eclipse.transformer.action.impl.ClassActionImpl;
-import org.eclipse.transformer.action.impl.SelectionRuleImpl;
-import org.eclipse.transformer.action.impl.SignatureRuleImpl;
-import org.eclipse.transformer.util.FileUtils;
-import org.objectweb.asm.ClassReader;
-import org.slf4j.Logger;
-import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
-
-import io.quarkus.bootstrap.classloading.QuarkusClassLoader;
-import io.quarkus.deployment.annotations.BuildProducer;
-import io.quarkus.deployment.annotations.BuildStep;
-import io.quarkus.deployment.builditem.BytecodeTransformerBuildItem;
-
-/**
- * The DB2 driver is compiled using references to classes in the jakarta.transaction
- * package; we need to transform these to fix compatibility with jakarta.transaction.
- * We do this by leveraging the Eclipse Transformer project during Augmentation, so
- * that end users don't need to bother.
- */
-public class JakartaEnablement {
-
-    private static final List<String> CLASSES_NEEDING_TRANSFORMATION = List.of(
-            "com.ibm.db2.jcc.t2zos.ab",
-            "com.ibm.db2.jcc.t2zos.T2zosConnection",
-            "com.ibm.db2.jcc.t2zos.T2zosConfiguration");
-
-    @BuildStep
-    void transformToJakarta(BuildProducer<BytecodeTransformerBuildItem> transformers) {
-        if (QuarkusClassLoader.isClassPresentAtRuntime("jakarta.transaction.Transaction")) {
-            JakartaTransformer tr = new JakartaTransformer();
-            for (String classname : CLASSES_NEEDING_TRANSFORMATION) {
-                final BytecodeTransformerBuildItem item = new BytecodeTransformerBuildItem.Builder()
-                        .setCacheable(true)
-                        .setContinueOnFailure(false)
-                        .setClassToTransform(classname)
-                        .setClassReaderOptions(ClassReader.SKIP_DEBUG)
-                        .setInputTransformer(tr::transform)
-                        .build();
-                transformers.produce(item);
-            }
-        }
-    }
-
-    private static class JakartaTransformer {
-
-        private final Logger logger;
-        private final ActionContext ctx;
-        private static final Map<String, String> renames = Collections.singletonMap(forbiddenName(), "jakarta.transaction");
-
-        JakartaTransformer() {
-            logger = LoggerFactory.getLogger("JakartaTransformer");
-            //N.B. we enable only this single transformation of package renames, not the full set of capabilities of Eclipse Transformer;
-            //this might need tailoring if the same idea gets applied to a different context.
-            ctx = new ActionContextImpl(logger,
-                    new SelectionRuleImpl(logger, Collections.emptyMap(), Collections.emptyMap()),
-                    new SignatureRuleImpl(logger, renames, null, null, null, null, null, Collections.emptyMap()));
-        }
-
-        //Need to prevent the Eclipse Transformer - which is run on this whole code base - to actually replace this name:
-        private static String forbiddenName() {
-            StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder("java")
-                    .append("x.")
-                    .append("transaction");
-            return sb.toString();
-        }
-
-        byte[] transform(final String name, final byte[] bytes) {
-            logger.info("Jakarta EE compatibility enhancer for Quarkus: transforming " + name);
-            final ClassActionImpl classTransformer = new ClassActionImpl(ctx);
-            final ByteBuffer input = ByteBuffer.wrap(bytes);
-            final ByteData inputData = new ByteDataImpl(name, input, FileUtils.DEFAULT_CHARSET);
-            final ByteData outputData = classTransformer.apply(inputData);
-            return outputData.buffer().array();
-        }
-    }
-
-}