BIGC00026E or BIGC00005E Error After Updating GPFS Connector To 2.7.0

Problem

After updating the GPFS Connector from 2.2.0 to 2.7.0, Datameer is unable to communicate with GPFS with errors similar to the following: 

Caused by: java.io.IOException: BIGC00005E: Path related exception for: gpfs:/biginsights/hive/raw/ent_ns
        at com.ibm.biginsights.fs.gpfs.GeneralParallelFileSystem.getFileStatus(GeneralParallelFileSystem.java:787)
        at org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem.globStatusInternal(FileSystem.java:1734)

Or

Caused by: java.io.IOException:  BIGC00026E: failed to get gpfs details :   uri = gpfs:///  conf =  Configuration: core-default.xml, core-site.xml, mapred-default.xml, mapred-site.xml, hdfs-default.xml, hdfs-site.xml, pmr-default.xml, pmr-site.xml  superGroup = supergrp  user = hadoop  userGroups = [Ljava.lang.String;@982e33f9  proxyUser = null  proxyGroup = null  isSuperUser = true

Cause

Datameer natively ships with the BigInsights libraries of the 2.2.0 GPFS connector. The 2.7.0 GPFS connector uses different libraries, jar files, and classes.

Solution

1. Stop Datameer.
2. Copy /usr/lpp/mmfs/hadoop/hadoop-gpfs-2.7.0.jar from a cluster node into the <datameer-install-dir>/webapps/conductor/WEB-INF/lib/ folder.
3. Delete the existing file <datameer-install-dir>/lib/native/Linux-amd64-64/libgpfsbiginsights.so.
4. Copy the new libgpfshadoop.so.2.7.0 from a cluster node into the <Datameer-Install-Dir>/lib/native/Linux-amd64-64/ folder.
5. Start Datameer.
6. Add fs.gpfs.impl=org.apache.hadoop.fs.gpfs.GeneralParallelFileSystem into Custom Properties of the cluster in Datameer.