Planning and Configuring HP-UX DCE 2.0

About HP-UX DCE Version 2.0
HP-UX DCE Core Services Software
Chapter 26
HP-UX DCE Core Services Software
HP-UX DCE server Version 2.0 is based on OSF DCE Version 1.2.1
source code, with bug fixes and value-added functionality. HP-UX DCE
Client comes with HP-UX core. This section describes the contents of this
release of HP-UX DCE Server version 2.0.
High-Level Features of HP-UX DCE 2.0
Following are the high-level features of HP-UX DCE 2.0:
• Remote Procedure Call (RPC) Facility, supporting both
connection-oriented (TCP/IP) and connectionless (UDP/IP) transport
protocols.
• Access to the CDS name space through the X/Open Directory Service
(XDS) and X/Open Object Management (XOM) services. The OSF
DCE 1.0.3 versions of the XDS, XOM, and dual libraries are a part of
libdcekt, and the necessary XDS and XOM header files are
provided.
• Distributed Time Service (DTS); this release supports ntp, null,
and Spectracom DTS time providers; it also supports global time
servers and DCE time zones.
The DCE application library is provided as a shared library (libdcekt).
If you use the shared library, a DCE application can share a single copy
of the library with other DCE applications that are running on the same
host.
Hewlett-Packard strongly recommends the use of shared libraries when
building DCE applications. The advantages of shared libraries — smaller
executable size, reduced memory requirement, and the ability to make
use of forthcoming improvements to libdcekt 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.
Supported Features in HP-UX DCE 2.0
HP-UX DCE 2.0 supports the following features that were added in
previous releases of HP-UX DCE: