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Status Delivered
Created by Guest
Created on Sep 8, 2014

Hadoop API/ Connector and it's Extended Attributes support for GPFS managing shared storage & support for Open Source Disti's

Support for the GPFS Hadoop API and it's extended attivutes to be included/supported in a normal GPFS Shared disk environment without the need for a bunch of servers with local disks. and without requiring a special GPFS-FPO code load.

This includes enabling support for other open source Hadoop solutions including HortonWorks and Cloudera.

This includes support for generic GPFS deployments, GPFS Storage Server for System x, and future GPFS Storage servers utilizing IBM servers.

Idea priority Urgent
  • Guest
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    Sep 30, 2020

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - IBM Spectrum Scale
    Product - Spectrum Scale (formerly known as GPFS) - Private RFEs
    Component - Product functionality

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - IBM Spectrum Scale
    Product - Spectrum Scale (formerly known as GPFS) - Private RFEs
    Component - Technical Foundation

  • Guest
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    Sep 19, 2014

    GPFS Hadoop connector code is currently available at GitHub (https://github.com/ibmgpfs/GPFSHadoopConnector). Does that help?

  • Guest
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    Sep 10, 2014

    Creating a new RFE based on Community RFE #58882 in product GPFS.