Planning and Configuring HP DCE 1.8

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About HP DCE/9000 Version 1.8

HP DCE/9000 Core Services Software

NOTE At HP DCE 1.8, both libdce and libcma are versioned for compatibility

reasons. libdce.1 and libcma.1 are the latest patched HP DCE 1.5

libraries. libdce.2 and libcma.2 support HP DCE 1.8 on HP-UX 11i.

Shared applications built on HP DCE 1.6 may have to recompile to run

on HP DCE 1.7 or any later release.

NOTE HP DCE will not have any archived libraries supported in the

application in any of the future releases.

Hewlett-Packard strongly recommends the use of shared libraries when

building DCE applications. In our opinion, the advantages of shared

libraries — smaller executable size, reduced memory requirement, and

the ability to make use of forthcoming improvements to libdce without

rebuilding or relinking binaries — outweigh the modest performance

penalty HP has measured when testing a high-volume transaction

processing application linked with DCE shared libraries.

HP DCE/9000 Features Added by Hewlett-Packard

Features Added at Previous Releases of HP DCE

HP DCE 1.8 supports the following features that were added to the

previous versions of HP DCE/ 9000:

NOTE The following tools Account Manager and DCM-(DCE Conﬁguration

Manager) will not be supported in the future releases.

• The HP DCE Account Manager (HP DCE 1.4 and later releases)

provides a graphical interface for creating and administering the

DCE registry. The Account Manager requires a bit-mapped display.

There is no ASCII terminal support. Online help is provided for the

Account Manager. See *** 'HP DCE Account Manager' on page 39 ***

later in this chapter for more information on the Account Manager.

• The HP DCE Cell Monitor (HP DCE 1.4 and HP DCE 1.5 only)