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by Sridhar Murthy T.R.
Commercial Systems Division
Overview
For the MPE/iX 6.0 release and later, the DCE RPC Client (Version A.01.12)
modules, will be included in the FOS. These DCE RPC modules are based on OSF
DCE 1.0.2. These changes will support customers who were continuing to be
dependent on NCS. NCS has been obsoleted from 6.0 release.
A DCE/NCS application is developed by first building an idl source file, for
example foo.idl for DCE,and foo.nidl for NCS. When compiled with the idl
compiler, the idl source file will create Server Client Stubs and an .h file
(DCE Stubs in the case of DCE idl and NSStubs for NCS idl.) The DCE/NCS
application must be linked with these stubs.
MPE/iX 6.0 release contains the utility NIDL2IDL which converts an existing
template file (for example, foo.nidl) to a DCE template(foo.idl.) This
application using the NCS calls must be ported to use the appropriate DCE
calls. Refer to NCS 1.5.1 in the DCE RPC Transition Guide for more
information.
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NOTE: CDS client on 6.0 will be available in a later release.
The following two products have been discontinued from 6.0.
B3824AA DCE/3000 CDS Server License
B3825AA CDE/3000 Security Server License
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Technical Details
In order for the RPC library calls to succeed, the RPC daemon RPCD must be
running. This daemon can be started in two ways, from the Command Interpreter
or from the POSIX Shell.
To start the daemon from the MPE CI, enter the command:
:RPCD.PUB.SYS
This command file will build a job file and stream it to create the RPCD
daemon.
To start the daemon from the POSIX Shell, enter the following commands:
$ export PATH=$PATH:/usr/bin$ rpcd
These commands will execute the script /usr/bin/rpcd which will invoke the
command file 'RPCD.PUB.SYS'.
The customer needs to run his applications as:
:Run foo;xl="dcexl.hpdce.sys othdxl.threads.sys"
OR
Link this program as follows:
:linkedit altprog foo.pub.sys;xl='dcexl.hpdce.sys,othdxl.threads.sys'
Then run foo as a executable.
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NOTE: For more information on application development, refer to the
section, "Building DCE Programs," in the document, DCE for the HP 3000
(Second Edition.)
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The following binaries are available as part of this submittal:
- GETIP
- Executable which gets a host's IP address.
- HOSTNAME
- Gets the host name.
- IDL
- The IDL compiler.
- IPCS
- Utility to get the status of IPC (Inter Process Communication) resource
usage status.
- LIBDCE
- Archive library of DCE modules.
- NSLOOKUP
- Utility to get the name and IP address of a host. It also gives name and
IP adress of DNS Server.
- NIDL2IDL
- Cross Compiler which will convert the existing NIDL source file to IDL
compatible source.
- OTHDXL
- Contains the PASCAL implementation of the pthread intrinsic calls.
- PS
- Process/Session Status
- RPCCP
- Control Program executable to manage end point mapping.
- RPCD
- Script create a job file and streams it to run rpcd daemon
- WHOAMI
- Command to get user name.
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