[HADOOP-9283] Add support for running the Hadoop client on AIX

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.0.2-alpha
• Fix Version/s: 2.1.0-beta
• Component/s: security
• Target Version/s: 2.1.0-beta
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: Aaron Myers
• Reporter: Aaron Myers
• Created: 05/Feb/13 23:45
• Updated: 27/Aug/13 22:06
• Resolved: 07/Feb/13 03:38

Description

The UserGroupInformation class currently supports running with either Sun Java or IBM Java on Windows or Linux. This JIRA is to add support for using the Hadoop client on AIX. Since there is no Sun Java available for AIX, only IBM Java will be supported on AIX.

Issue Links

• is related to: HADOOP-9537 Backport AIX patches to branch-1