Sybase applications access a DCE directory by using DCE Cell Directory Services (CDS) as the directory provider.
In DCE CDS, the directory name space is divided into cells. Each cell acts as an administrative domain for managing network resources and their users. In CDS, a fully qualified name can be cell-relative or globally qualified:
Cell-relative qualified names begin with the special token “/.:”. The common name of descendant nodes are listed in order (from left to right) and each common name is separated from its parent with a forward slash (/). The following example illustrates a cell-relative qualified name:
/.:/eng/license_data
Globally qualified names begin with the special token “/...”. Following “/...” is a Domain Name Services (DNS) name for the DCE cell. The rest of the name consists of the descendant nodes from the cell root, in left-to-right order and separated by slashes. The following example illustrates a globally qualified name. In this example, “sales.fictional.com” identifies the cell that contains the entry:
/.../sales.fictional.com/dataservers/license_data
