IBM to Discontinue Support for Hadoop Distributed File System Transparency Connector 3.1.0 for Hortonworks Data Platform

Revised technical support: IBM Spectrum Scale and IBM Spectrum Scale for Elastic Storage Server

Effective December 31, 2021, IBM will discontinue support for Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) Transparency Connector 3.1.0 for Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) from its Spectrum Scale offerings listed in the Program number section.

Cloudera has announced the end of support for HDP 3.1 as of December 31, 2021. Therefore, IBM will discontinue support for HDP in its Spectrum Scale and Spectrum Scale for Elastic Storage Server (ESS) offerings on December 31, 2021.

Due to the HDFS Transparency Connector dependency on the Cloudera Distribution certification, when Cloudera ends support for HDP 3.1, the corresponding HDFS Transparency Connector version 3.1.0 will no longer be supported for all Spectrum Scale and Spectrum Scale for ESS editions.

Note that the later HDFS Transparency connector version 3.1.1 supporting Cloudera CDP version 7.1.6, and higher, will continue to be supported by Spectrum Scale and Spectrum Scale for ESS.

It is recommended that Spectrum Scale or IBM Spectrum Scale for ESS clients running HDP 3.1 contact their IBM or Cloudera representative for details about migration options.

Effective date: December 31, 2021
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