CONTENTS Title Page Copyright Page 1 Getting Started 1.1 Changes Made in this Mandatory Update Kit 1.2 Upgrading the Directory Service 1.3 Installing on DEC OSF/1 DCE Systems 1.4 Prerequisite Software 1.5 Deinstalling Directory Service Components or Prerequisite Products 1.6 Cluster Support 2 Restrictions in DECnet 2.1 DSA on DEC OSF/1 Systems Handling of Multiple Bind Requests 2.2 DSA on OpenVMS Systems Handling of Multiple Bind Requests 3 NCL Restrictions 3.1 Setting of DSA Characteristic Attributes 3.2 Creating and Deleting the DSA Quickly on DEC OSF/1 Systems 3.3 Restriction on Using Zero Length Passwords 3.4 Problem with Characteristic Attributes Representing NSAPs 3.5 Limited NCL Command Buffer Size 3.6 NCL Command Filtering 3.7 Display of DSA Attributes on OpenVMS Systems 4 Known Problems and Restrictions 4.1 Shadow Subordinate References Cannot Always Be Deleted 4.2 Restriction on the Definition of Labels in the Schema 4.3 ULTRIX Trademark Missing from OSI-Abstract-Data Book 4.4 DSA Handling of a Stopped RFC1006 Daemon 4.5 DSA Handling of Referral Loops 4.6 Distributed Access Failure Event 4.7 Database Snapshot Failures 4.8 Syntaxes Supported by the Directory Service 4.9 Problem with the PrescriptiveACI Attribute 4.10 Replicating to a DSA from the Same DSA 4.11 DSA Handling of Presentation Address Protocol Identifiers 4.12 Displaying Entries that are Part of Your Global Prefix 5 DXIM Problems 5.1 Handling of Attributes that Have No Matching Rules 5.2 UTC Time Value Checking 6 DXIM Command Line Interface Problems 6.1 Relative Names in Fixed Format Files 6.2 Resuming a Suspended DXIM Session (DEC OSF/1) 6.3 Ambiguous Keyword 7 DXIM Motif Interface Restrictions 7.1 Traversing Windows Using the Keyboard 7.2 Problem Deleting Multiple Entries 7.3 Handling of User Passwords 7.4 Handling of Search Filters 7.5 Support of the undefinedSyntax 7.6 Online Help 7.7 Display of the Base Object 7.8 Deleting Entries 7.9 Cut and Paste Using the Edit Menu 7.10 No Support for Auxiliary Object Classes 7.11 Incorrect Integer Values Not Detected 7.12 Usability Problems 7.13 Application Resources 8 XDS Problems and Information 8.1 XDS Example Programs 8.2 Primitive Syntax Attributes in Uninitialized Objects 8.3 XDS is not Thread-safe in a Multithreading Environment 8.4 XDS Does Not Support Calls at AST-Level on OpenVMS Systems 8.5 No Support for Boolean Attribute Values 8.6 Incorrect Initial Value for Information Type 8.7 Primitive Values Incorrect in a Referral 8.8 Reading the On-line Reference Pages