diff --git a/backend/requirements.in b/backend/requirements.in
index a3cc343..cf03930 100644
--- a/backend/requirements.in
+++ b/backend/requirements.in
@@ -3,3 +3,5 @@ Flask
 Flask-SQLAlchemy
 githubpy
 flask_pyoidc
+ibm_db_sa
+ibm_db
diff --git a/backend/requirements.txt b/backend/requirements.txt
index 5e7f775..afe9af0 100755
--- a/backend/requirements.txt
+++ b/backend/requirements.txt
@@ -19,6 +19,8 @@ flask==0.12.1
 funcsigs==1.0.2           # via beaker
 future==0.16.0            # via oic, pyjwkest
 githubpy==1.1.0
+ibm-db-sa==0.3.3
+ibm-db==2.0.8
 idna==2.6                 # via cryptography, requests
 ipaddress==1.0.19         # via cryptography
 itsdangerous==0.24        # via flask
@@ -32,6 +34,6 @@ pyjwkest==1.4.0           # via oic
 pyopenssl==17.5.0         # via oic
 requests==2.18.4          # via oic, pyjwkest
 six==1.11.0               # via cryptography, oic, pyjwkest, pyopenssl
-sqlalchemy==1.2.6         # via flask-sqlalchemy
+sqlalchemy==1.2.6         # via flask-sqlalchemy, ibm-db-sa
 urllib3==1.22             # via requests
 werkzeug==0.12.1          # via flask