Understanding OSF DCE 1.1 For AIX and OS/2

49375-9 IBM's official guide to DCE distributed computing with AIX and OS/2. OSF's Distributed Computing Environment (DCE) offers developers unique opportunities to build distributed applications that are interoperable across multiple hardware and software platforms. DCE is IBM's strategic technology for communication and distribution services, and DCE Release 1.1 is available on both IBM's AIX and OS/2 Warp operating system platforms. This book begins by presenting a high-level overview of DCE, and then covers everything administrators, developers and users need to take advantage of DCE on AIX and OS/2. It walks step-by-step through the installation and customization of DCE services in both AIX and OS/2 Warp environments. It also reviews all the DCE services that administrators will be concerned with, notably: * Directory service. * Security service. * Distributed time service. * Distributed file service. If you're developing DCE applications--especially if you're using low-level DCE RPCs or writing dcecp scripts--you'll also find this book invaluable. Read this book now, and you'll be well-positioned as IBM adds DCE support to products like LAN Server for OS/2, DB2 and DSOM.
Read it if you're new to DCE and need to understand its internals--or if you were familiar with DCE 1.0 and you need to understand what's new in Release 1.1. As IBM and other vendors increasingly support DCE, knowledge of DCE is becoming essential for both administrators and developers. Understanding OSF DCE 1.1 for AIX and OS/2 is an exceptionally clear explanation of this critical technology.