HP-UX DCE Version 1.
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1 About This Document This document is the release note for HP Distributed Computing Environment (DCE) Version 1.9 for HP-UX 11i v2. For detailed information about HP-UX DCE 1.9, refer Planning and Configuring HP-UX DCE 1.9 (B3190-90076) on docs.hp.com. For information about the documentation for HP-UX DCE 1.9, see Chapter , “What Manuals Are Available For This Version,” on page 16.
About This Document In This Version In This Version HP-UX DCE Version 1.9 provides the features of OSF DCE 1.2.1, along with HP value-added features and bug fixes. HP-UX DCE Version 1.9 Overview HP-UX DCE Version 1.9 server makes the functionality of Open Software Foundation (OSF) DCE 1.2.1 available on HP systems running HP-UX 11i v2. HP-UX DCE 1.9 also includes HP value-added tools. HP-UX DCE 1.9 provides the functionality of HP-UX DCE 1.4.1, 1.5, 1.6, and 1.7, along with new features and bug fixes.
About This Document In This Version New Features in HP-UX DCE 1.9 The following features are new in HP-UX DCE 1.9: • Support for IPF platform • Kernel-threaded DCE servers • Capacity expansion Features Removed From HP-UX DCE 1.9 The following features have been removed from HP-UX DCE 1.9: • Tracing facility • CMA threads • Support for DFS Supported Features of HP-UX DCE 1.9 HP-UX DCE 1.9 includes the following OSF DCE 1.2.1 features.
About This Document In This Version • Internationalization interfaces — message catalogs for all user-visible messages. • Character code set interoperability — allow development of RPC applications that automatically convert character data from one code set to another. • Interface Definition Language (IDL) compiler performance enhancements — smaller stub size and a number of new IDL constructs.
About This Document Changed Features in HP-UX DCE 1.9 Changed Features in HP-UX DCE 1.9 This section describes features that have changed in HP-UX DCE 1.9. Control Programs and Daemons HP-UX DCE 1.4.x replaced the following control programs with dcecp. HP-UX DCE 1.6 and 1.7 support these programs for transition purposes only. HP-UX DCE 1.9 does not support them. If you use any scripts referencing these programs, modify these scripts to use dcecp instead.
About This Document Compatibility Among Versions of HP-UX DCE Compatibility Among Versions of HP-UX DCE HP-UX DCE 1.9 is compatible with all previous versions of HP-UX DCE. HP-UX DCE 1.9 does not support DFS (supplied with HP-UX DCE 1.5 and earlier HP-UX DCE versions). Interoperability with Other Implementations of OSF DCE HP-UX DCE 1.9 is interoperable with a variety of other implementations of OSF DCE running on various platforms. Refer Chapter 1 of Planning and Configuring HP-UX DCE 1.
About This Document Known Problems and Work Arounds Known Problems and Work Arounds This chapter describes the known problems, workarounds, and changes in HP-UX DCE Version 1.9 on HP-UX 11i v2. Known Problems for HP-UX DCE Version 1.9 This chapter contains a list of the known problems for HP-UX DCE 1.9. Planning and Configuring HP-UX DCE 1.9 (B3190-90076) also contains additional information about many of these problems.
About This Document Known Problems and Work Arounds One workaround for this condition is to run dcecp in normal mode on a host with dced also in normal mode and then execute the command again. Alternatively, you can quit out of "local" mode between acl modify -add commands. For more information, refer Planning and Configuring HP-UX DCE 1.9 (B3190-90076). • From HP-UX DCE 1.6 onwards, dcecp's secval activate and secval deactivate commands became asynchronous.
About This Document Known Problems and Work Arounds • Support for Integrated Login Password Expiration and Password Generation is as follows: When a password expires, the corresponding account is disabled. The user cannot log in until the DCE cell administrator reactivates the account. The DCE cell administrator can exempt certain principals from this security feature by attaching instances of the passwd_override ERA to those principals.
About This Document Known Problems and Work Arounds The helpgen utility has been run to create an up-to-date help browser volume for this system. If you have modified the environment variable XVHHELPSYSTEMSEARCHPATH (in the /usr/vue/config/Xsession file),but did not run `update' during an HP VUE session, your custom value for XVHHELPSYSTEMSEARCHPATH may not have been used. You may need to log into an HP VUE session and rerun helpgen as superuser.(For more information, refer to the helpgen man page.
About This Document Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements This chapter describes compatibility and installation requirements for HP-UX DCE Version 1.9 on HP-UX 11i v2. HP-UX DCE Version 1.9 Installation Requirements This section provides a brief overview of HP-UX DCE 1.9 installation for HP- UX 11i v2, followed by installation requirements. Installation of HP-UX DCE 1.9 is described in Planning and Configuring HP-UX DCE 1.
About This Document Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements For more information about HP-UX DCE products and file sets, refer Planning and Configuring HP-UX DCE 1.9 (B3190-90076). Codeword If your software media was shipped with a codeword certificate, you must follow the instructions on the certificate to obtain a codeword before you load the software into the depot. When you load software that requires a codeword, you must enter a valid codeword and hardware id.
About This Document What's Fixed In This Version What's Fixed In This Version This chapter describes fixes and patches for HP-UX DCE Version 1.9 on HP-UX 11i v2. Fixes in HP-UX DCE Version 1.9 Following are the defects that are fixed in HP-UX DCE Version 1.9: • The cdsbrowser application used to display DFS entries for a DCE cell. DFS is no longer supported in HP-UX operating systems version 11.00 and above. Hence the DFS entry from cdsbrowser has been removed.
About This Document What Manuals Are Available For This Version What Manuals Are Available For This Version This chapter describes the documentation for HP-UX DCE Version 1.9 on HP-UX 11i v2. HP-UX DCE Version 1.9 Documentation The following sections list the various documents available for HP-UX DCE 1.9. • Planning and Configuring HP-UX DCE 1.9 (B3190-90076) • HP-UX DCE Version 1.
About This Document What Manuals Are Available For This Version NOTE Use the following command to display the dts_update manpage: man dts_update HP-UX DCE Online Help HP-UX DCE offers a DCE Online Help feature that provides information about various aspects of HP-UX DCE. DCE Online Help is integrated into the HP Help System, so you can access it from the CDE Front Panel help icon. NOTE This feature is supported on X-based displays only; it is not available on ASCII terminals.
About This Document Software Availability In Native Languages Software Availability In Native Languages This chapter describes how HP-UX DCE is localized. HP-UX DCE Version Localization HP-UX DCE 1.6 was localized for the Japanese market. HP provided localized message catalogs in both Shift-JIS and EUC encoding. Consult your Hewlett-Packard sales representative for detailed information about the Japanese-localized version of HP-UX DCE 1.6. HP-UX DCE 1.9 provides no additional localization.
