IBM 4690 Operating System V5.2 Supports New Surepos 700 Models, Adds System Management Capabilities, and Improves Integration with Remote Management Agent
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IBM United States Announcement 207-265, dated October 23, 2007 IBM 4690 Operating System V5.2 supports new SurePOS 700 models, adds system management capabilities, and improves integration with Remote Management Agent Description .................................................2 At a glance Reference information ............................... 3 Offering Information ...................................3 Enhancements to IBM 4690 Operating System V5.2: Publications ............................................... 3 Technical information .................................4 • Support for new models of the SurePOS 700 family Ordering information ..................................7 • Ability to remotely set terminal complementary metal oxide Terms and conditions ................................ 8 semiconductor (CMOS) settings for SurePOS 700 Models 72X, 74X, Prices .........................................................9 and 78X • Support for larger exception logs • Reporting of 4610 electromagnetic noise • Programming application interface (API) to enable easier Master/File Server Activation/Deactivation • Scanning of 2D bar code (PDF 417) • Wildcard support for CD and DVD file access (dir *. *, for example) • Support for Russian and Ukrainian code pages • Support for additional usability enhancements • Instrumentation for system management • Improved integration with Remote Management Agent (RMA) Overview As technology moves ahead, the IBM 4690 Operating System continues to be a retail hardened, multiuser, multitasking high-performance operating system that: • Offers a strong platform for point-of-sale (POS) and e-business applications in on demand retail environments • Delivers outstanding overall versatility, functionality, and reliability • Supports a wide range of hardware and peripherals • Provides outstanding IT investment IBM 4690 Operating System V5.2 adds support for the exciting new IBM SurePOS™ 700 models and builds the instrumentation for system management and improved integration with Remote Management Agent (RMA). Key prerequisites Refer to the Technical information section for details. Planned availability date IBM United States Announcement 207-265 IBM is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation 1 January 11, 2008 Description IBM 4690 Operating System V5.2 adds the following enhancements: • Support for new models of the SurePOS 700 family Along with Version 5 Release 2 of 4690 OS, we are announcing the support of the next generation of Retail Store Solutions POS system units, the 4800-7x3, 4800-Sx3, and 4800-C43. This new generation of POS hardware has significant serviceability enhancements. • Ability to remotely set terminal CMOS settings This function will provide retailers with capability to remotely set terminal CMOS options. It is specifically for Models 72X, 74X, 78X, S2X, S4X, and S8X. • Support for larger exception logs This function will increase the size of the exception log to four times the current size. • Reporting of 4610 electromagnetic noise 4610 printers may provide an indication that there was excessive electromagnetic noise on a particular magnetic ink character reader (MICR) read command. With Version 5.2, this information is made available to the application. • Easier Master/File Server Activation/Deactivation This function provides APIs to allow user applications to delete entries from the exception logs, as well as APIs to activate or deactivate the master or file server controllers. • Scanning of 2D bar code (PDF 417) Applications are now able to scan a 2D bar code with Version 5.2. • Provide wildcard support for CD and DVD file access This allows the use of wildcard support when accessing a CD and DVD on 4690 OS. • Support for Russian and Ukrainian code pages This enhancement expands support for the Russian code page to the POS terminals, and supports Ukrainian at the store controller and POS terminal. Additional usability enhancements to IBM 4690 Operating System V5.2 include: • Confirm Control, Alt, Delete This is an optional selection that, when enabled, would require the user to confirm that the controller should IPL. • Improve performance of file directory access Increase the directory/FAT (File Access Table) cache to improve performance for file directory entry access, as well as FAT entry accesses. • Log an event when clearing of exception log This function adds the logging of a message when an exception log is successfully cleared and when an unsuccessful attempt is made to modify all exception log entries. • Add terminal keyboard type to terminal application status This function adds an additional byte to the end of the terminal application status control block to contain an identifier for the specific type of keyboard which is attached to the terminal. IBM United States Announcement 207-265 IBM is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation 2 • Add a common Generic Terminal Configuration (GTC) look and feel for Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) configuration This item converts the DHCP configuration GUI to conform to the look and feel of all the other GUI, creating a more uniform presentation to the user. Accessibility by people with disabilities A U.S. Section 508 Voluntary Product Accessibility Template (VPAT) containing details on accessibility compliance can be requested at http://www.ibm.com/able/product_accessibility/index.html Reference information Refer to Software Announcement 207-001, dated January 9, 2007. Availability of national languages Product number 5639-GG1 Feature Availability number Description date 5809 4690 OS V5.2 Fr Canadian Base+Migr CDROM January 11, 2008 5829 4690 OS V5.2 English Base+Migr CDROM January 11, 2008 Business Partner information If you are a Direct Reseller - System Reseller acquiring products from IBM, you may link directly to Business Partner information for this announcement. A PartnerWorld ID and password are required (use IBM ID). BP Attachment for Announcement Letter 207-265 https://www.ibm.com/partnerworld/mem/sla.jsp?num=207-265 Trademarks SurePOS is a trademark of International Business Machines Corporation in the United States or other countries or both. Other company, product, and service names may be trademarks or service marks of others. Offering Information Product information is available via the Offering Information Web site http://www.ibm.com/common/ssi Publications A program directory and one copy of the following publications are automatically supplied with the base and migration machine-readable material: Order Title number Program Directory GI10-6644 License Information GC30-4155-01 Support Agreement Addendum GI19-0246 Displayable softcopy publications IBM United States Announcement 207-265 IBM is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation 3 IBM 4690 OS V5.2 documentation is offered in displayable softcopy form on the Internet. The following unlicensed manuals are included: • IBM 4690 OS V5: Users Guide, SC30-4134 • IBM 4690 OS V5: Planning, Installation, and Configuration Guide, GC30-4133 • IBM 4690 OS V5: Messages Guide, SC30-4135 • IBM 4690 OS V5: Communications Programming Guide, SC30-4136 • IBM 4690 OS V5: Programming Guide, SC20-4137 • IBM 4680 BASIC Reference, SC30-3356 • TR-4 Tape Drive User's Guide • OnLine System Probe • Application Interface Specification for IBM 4610 printers These displayable manuals can be viewed with the Adobe Acrobat Reader, which is offered free on the Internet. Terms and conditions for use of the machine-readable files are shipped with the files. Instructions for displaying the manuals is contained in the README file on the media. Copies of the publications are also available for no charge using the following Web site and selecting "Publications," then "Operating System Publications": http://www.ibm.com/solutions/retail/store/support Technical information Specified operating environment Hardware requirements Hardware requirements for 4690 OS V5.2 are as follows: • Minimum controller requirements — Pentium® class 100 MHz or better processor, 32 MB RAM • Minimum requirements for Java™ 2 usage (controller and terminal) — Pentium class 300 MHz or better processor, 128 MB RAM • Maximum controller memory — 1 GB • Maximum terminal memory — 512 MB (for those 4694 and SurePOS™ 700 terminals that can run 512 MB) Processor and memory requirements in the terminals and controllers are dependent upon the needs of the applications being utilized. 4690 OS V5.2 JRE Memory Supported Supported Requirements IBM POS Terminals (1) (2) IBM SurePOS 700 Series Yes Yes 128 -- 512 MB All Models(3) IBM SurePOS 4694 System Yes Yes 128 -- 512 MB Models 307, 347 IBM SurePOS 4694 System Yes Yes 128 -- 256 MB Model 244 IBM SurePOS 4694 System Yes Yes 128 -- 512 MB Model 205, 245, 206, 246, 207, 247 IBM SurePOS 4694 System Yes -- -- Models 104, 144, 106, 146(4) IBM United States Announcement 207-265 IBM is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation 4 Model 154(4,5) IBM SurePOS 4694 System Yes -- -- Models 004, 044(4) IBM SurePOS 4693 System(4) Yes IBM SurePOS 4683 System(4) Yes (1) The IBM 4690 OS V5.2 supports all the terminals listed here, any of which can run existing 4690 applications. Note that only the IBM SurePOS 700 Series and select models of the IBM SurePOS 4694 POS System can run Java applications. (2) Processor and memory requirements in terminals and controllers are dependent upon the needs of the Java applications being utilized. (3) The SurePOS 721 and 73X are only supported as terminals.