DCE for the HP e3000 (B3821-90002)

General Information

Release Limitations

Chapter 1

Release Limitations

Some of the limitations described here reﬂect limitations of OSF DCE 1.0.2, other

limitations are speciﬁc to this release only.

Limitations of OSF DCE 1.0.2

• There is no support for application localization (only English is supported), or for

application internationalization.

NOTE Localization is deﬁned as making software interfaces appear in the native language of

the country in which the software is run. For example, all the user interfaces and

messages of an application localized for Italy would be in the Italian language.

Internationalization is deﬁned as enabling an application that is distributed across

international boundaries to be localized for users in different countries. For example, an

application might consist of a server that communicates with clients in Japan and the

Netherlands. The internationalized server could return information in such a form that

its clients in Japan could display the information in Japanese, and its clients in the

Netherlands could display the information in Dutch.

• The passwd_import tool, which imports user account information from /etc/passwd

ﬁles to the Registry database, does not import the passwords themselves. Therefore,

after you have used the passwd_import tool to create skeletal DCE accounts in the

Registry database, you must use the rgy_edit tool to add passwords to those

accounts.

Unsupported Conﬁgurations

DCE/3000 (version A.01.02) does not support any of the OSFDCE extended services and

conﬁgurations, this includes:

• DFS

• X.500 Global Directory Services

• Access to the CDS namespace through the X/Open Directory Service (XDS) and

X/Open Object Management (XOM) services

• Diskless Operation

• The “+” character. This is not supported in the MPE/iX HFS name syntax; therefore,

GMT ﬁles (GMT+0 through GMT+13) cannot be created under

/opt/dcelocal/etc/zoneinfo. This could cause the dtscp program to interpret your local

time incorrectly from the show current time command.