What's in This Version

The HP DCE Version 1.8 Application Development Tools for HP-UX 11i help users to develop HP DCE 1.8 applications.




	NOTE: The previous version of the Release Notes are available in the following directory: /opt/dce/newconfig/RelNotes.

Application Development Tools Product Options

The HP DCE Version 1.8 Application Development Tools for HP-UX 11i consists of the following optional products.

The licenses you have purchased from Hewlett-Packard determine whether you can install this product. The optional products are:

HP DCE Application Development Tools assist in the development of the HP DCE programs written in C. The following are the different HP DCE Application Development Tools and their corresponding Man Pages:

HP DCE-C-Tools include:

HP DCE Version 1.8 Messaging and Serviceability Interfaces
i2DL Compiler
Sample Applications

DCE-CoreTools.DCE-BPRG include:

HP DCE Core Programming Tools

DCE-CoreTools.DCEP-ENG-A-MAN

HP DCE Core Programming Manpages

DCE-CoreTools.THD-ENG-A-MAN include:

HP DCE Threads Programming Manpages

DCE-CDS-Server.CDSS-ENG-A-MAN include:

HP DCE-CDS-Server Manpages

DCE-SEC-Server.SECS-ENG-A-MAN include:

Manpages for DCE Security Server Software




	NOTE: Although Tracing, Logging and Error Reporting facilities of the previous versions are still available in this version of HP-DCE-C Tools, HP recommends that you use the new Messaging and Serviceability Interfaces.

New Features

The following features have been added at HP DCE 1.8:

32 / 64 bit DCE Application Development with kernel Threads. HP DCE Version 1.8 core services comes with 32 bit and 64 bit DCE kernel threaded libraries to support Application Development with kernel Threads.

To use HP-UX kernel Threads, DCE applications should either define the pre-compiler name _POSIX_D10_THREADS or define _POSIX_C_SOURCE = 1995061.

DCE Applications built based on kernel threads, which use exception handling mechanisms must include the header files <pthread_exc.h> and <exc_handling.h> and include the path /usr/include/ before /usr/include/dce (or /opt/dce/include/dce) in the search path for DCE applications using the user-level threads library. However, on the same machine (s) where the kernel Threads Development Tools have been installed users must use /usr/include/dce/ (or /opt/dce/include/dce) before /usr/include in the search path for compilation.

Kernel Threads based DCE applications must link with the following libraries

/usr/lib/libdcekt.sl
/usr/lib/libpthread.sl




	NOTE: The 64 Bit DCE applications may need to include "/usr/include /dce/dce64.h". The site "http://www.software.hp.com/STK" contains 64 bit porting guidelines, 64 bit compiler and linker changes needed to port the applications to 64 bit. The advantages of moving to 64 bit can be found under "http://www.software.hp.com/STK/hpuxoverview.html#64-bit". The 32 Bit version kernel threads DCE library (libdcekt.sl) which was earlier released on AP9806 is now part of the HP-UX base system.

DCE Library: Starting HP-UX 11i there will only be one version of DCE library (and dced). 56 bit DES encyption which was earlier restriced to US / Canada is now available to all customers. Hence, there will be no separate DCE-Domestic product in DCE 1.8 version.
Libraries shipped in DCE-KT-Tools: DCE -KT-SHLIB fileset and DCE-KT-Domestic. DCE-KT-SHLIB are not part of the DCE core.
DCE-KT-Tools: DCE-KT-BPRG fileset of HP DCE 1.7.1 will be part of DCE-CoreTools product. DCE-KT-Tools product will not be available for HP DCE 1.8
Filesets in IntegratedLogin has been renamed. Fileset AUTH-COMMON is renamed to ILOGIN-COMMON and AUTH-DCE is renamed to ILOGIN-DCE.
The binaries of HP-DCE kinit, klist and kdestroy are in directory /opt/dce/bin. The kinit, klist and kdestroy in /usr/bin belong to KRB5-Client product. For details on HP DCE kinit, klist and kdestroy: refer HP DCE kinit, klist and kdestroy manpages found in /opt/dce/share/man directory.

Fixes

See the section, "Patches and Fixes in this Version" for a list of the fixes included in this version.

Manuals Available for this Version

Describes the documentation available for the HP DCE 1.8 Application Development Tools for HP-UX 11i.

Printed Documentation

The printed documentation for the Application Development Tools consists of the following:

This document describes the Application Development Tools as described in the section Application Development Tools Product Options.
Planning and Configuring HP DCE 1.8 (B3190-90074), which describes the HP changes and additions to OSF 1.2.1; it also describes installing and configuring HP DCE 1.8 and how to migrate from previous releases of HP DCE to HP DCE 1.8. This document describes both HP DCE 1.8 clients and servers.
All other documentation for these products are available online only; you can print the online files through the standard help and man page print functions.

Online Documentation

DCE-C-Tools

DCE-C-Tools includes the following online documentation:

The following CDE Help volumes:
- HP DCE Application Development Tools (access to man pages)
- HP Sample Applications Online Help
To access these volumes, select HP DCE Application Development Tools from the CDE Front Panel.
HP DCE Version 1.8 Application Development Tools Release Note, an ASCII version of this document can be found in the following path: /opt/dce/newconfig/Relnotes.

Man pages




	NOTE: To access these man pages from the HP Help System, include the directory /usr/share/man in your MANPATH environment variable.Refer also to the ASCII README file included in the directory of each of the sample applications for important information about that application.