diff --git a/ingestion/src/metadata/ingestion/source/database/db2/connection.py b/ingestion/src/metadata/ingestion/source/database/db2/connection.py
index b25ac3efc75..c9efc348f73 100644
--- a/ingestion/src/metadata/ingestion/source/database/db2/connection.py
+++ b/ingestion/src/metadata/ingestion/source/database/db2/connection.py
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ def get_connection(connection: Db2Connection) -> Engine:
             "w",
             encoding=UTF_8,
         ) as file:
-            file.write(connection.license)
+            file.write(connection.license.encode(UTF_8).decode("unicode-escape"))
 
     return create_generic_db_connection(
         connection=connection,