Whatever happened to the NDS Catalog Services? One...
Articles and Tips: qna
01 Apr 2002
Q.
Whatever happened to the NDS Catalog Services? One day I hear about this nifty way to speed up searches in NDS, and the next, it's gone.
A.
Catalog Services was introduced with NetWare 4.x and NDS v7.x to increase access speed in larger trees. With the advent of NDS v8.x, the concept became obsolete when faster methods of accessing the directory were made available, including iteration services (NDS v8.x) and filtered replicas (v8.5)
Novell does not recommend the use of Catalog Service and no longer ships Catalog Services with NetWare 6. However, NetWare 6 remains downward compatible, and the Catalog Services APIs as well as the Catalog Services utilities will continue to work with eDirectory 8.6.
As developers, you should make plans to migrate applications to Filtered Replicas.
(Submitted by Wolfgang Schreiber, Novell)
* Originally published in Novell AppNotes
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