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How to setup IBM DB2 9.7 to work with Entity Framework 6 and Visual Studio 2015?

I'm using Visual Studio 2015 to develop an ASP.NET MVC application on a Windows 7, 64-bit machine and I want to connect to an IBM DB2 9.7 database using Entity Framework 6 (Code-First). ...Background...I've found a number of articles online that indicate ...