Distributed Computing Environment (DCE)

Distributed Computing Environment (DCE) products provide a high-quality, comprehensive, standard framework to develop, administer and use distributed applications.

Integrated Login provides a single-step login and also provides the means for incorporating DCE security technology in the HPUX environment.

Summary of Change

The following products are changed in HP-UX 11i v1.6:

DCE-Core
DCE-CoreTools
Integrated login (PA-RISC version only)

Details of Change

DCE-Core:

Two additional libraries corresponding to the PA-RISC 32 and 64-bit versions respectively has been added:

/usr/lib/hpux32/libdcekt.so
/usr/lib/hpux64/libdcekt.so

DCE-CoreTools:

This product was delivered on the Application CD in the 11i release and beginning in 11i v1.6 it is part of the Core OS.

Integrated Login:

The Integrated Login product is delivered only on the PA-RISC version of HP-UX 11i v1.6. It is not available in the IPF version.

Impact

Users must recompile all RPC applications to take advantage of the IPF features.

As the Integrated Login product is not available in the IPF version of HP-UX 11i v1.6, single-step login incorporating DCE security technology in the HP-UX environment is not possible in an IPF environment.

Compatibility

DCE client applications on IPF system can work with DCE server on a PA-RISC system.

Users have the choice of using either the PA-RISC or IPF version of DCE Runtime library (libdcekt).

The header files, /opt/dce/include/dce/pthread_exc_wrap.h and /opt/dce/include/dce/exc_handling_wrap.h, are not delivered in HP-UX 11i v1.6. Applications using these files should use /usr/include/pthread_exc.h and /usr/include/exc_handling.h respectively.

Performance

Applications may experience some performance degradation while running in the compatibility mode.

Obsolescence

CMA application development is no longer supported.

KRB-Support product is no longer supported.

The following products are discontinued in HP-UX 11i v1.6:

DCE-CDS-Server: CDS Services
DCE-SEC-Server: Security Server
DCE-C-Tools: Development Tools
DCE-CoreAdmin: Programming & Administration Tools

Documentation

Not applicable.