IBM 4690 Operating System V3.3 — Enhanced Surepos 700 Series Support Provides Retailers with Additional Capability
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Software Announcement September 16, 2003 IBM 4690 Operating System V3.3 — Enhanced SurePOS 700 Series support provides retailers with additional capability Overview • Support for the new SurePOS 700 terminals being announced today At a glance IBM 4690 Operating System (OS) is • Support for the latest SureMark a retail-hardened, multiuser, The enhancements in IBM 4690 Printers with Document Scanning multitasking, high-performance Operating System (OS) V3.3 give and Electronic Check Imaging operating system that runs on select you: SurePOS 469x, 468x, and 700 • Support for the latest SurePoint • Support for the latest level of Series terminals. It supports: Flat Panel Displays Java VM (1.4.1) that lets you • Retail applications written in • Bootable CD-ROM support stay current with JVM Java , C++, C, and CBASIC • Java VM 1.4.1 currency • Support for the new SurePOS • Access to unique I/O devices for 700 terminals being announced point of sale (POS) Those who have SW Maintenance today support are entitled to receive • • Thin clients with reliable Release 3 without charge. Support for the latest SureMark terminal-to-controller Printers with Document communications Scanning and Electronic Check Key prerequisites Imaging • Communication with external networks Refer to the Technical information • Support for the latest SurePoint section for details. Flat Panel Displays New in V3.3 V3.2, announced in Software Planned availability date Announcement 203-044, dated February 18, 2003, provided you October 10, 2003 with the solid foundation needed to support e-business and maximize productivity at the POS. Release 3 provides several important enhancements, including: This announcement is provided for your information only. For additional information, contact your IBM representative, call 800-IBM-4YOU, or visit the IBM home page at: http://www.ibm.com. IBM United States IBM is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation. 203-242 • Bootable CD-ROM support for controllers Description 4690 OS will support the use of a bootable IDE Release 3 of 4690 OS V3 adds the following CD-ROM in controllers, to eliminate the need for enhancements: booting Supplementals or installation diskettes. Bootable CD-ROM will also be supported via the • Support for new models of SurePOS 700 (Models 721, internal CD-ROMs in store controllers that support the 741, 781, C41) “El Torito” Bootable CD-ROM Format Specification − New SurePOS 700 terminal support Version 1.0, available at: New SurePOS 700 models are supported as 4690 http://www.phoenix.com/resources/ terminals. The terminals are supported as either specs-cdrom.pdf Ethernet or token-ring attached terminals. Ethernet terminals are supported via the on-board Ethernet Externally attached CD-ROMs are not supported. port, and token-ring terminals are supported by PCI token-ring adapters. (Store loop terminal support • Generic terminal configuration is not available.) SurePOS 700 terminals boot via PXE load on Ethernet, and via RPL on token ring. 4694 terminal configuration is enhanced to match that Except for the lack of RPL support when of the new SurePOS 700 terminals, and is able to take Ethernet-attached, the SurePOS 700 terminal′s advantage of design points such as default function is equivalent to that of SurePOS 75x configurations to make usage easier. It is possible to terminals — including, but not limited to, legacy add a 4694 terminal to the store system without having application support, Java application support, dual to explicitly identify the peripherals that are attached display support, and TCP/IP communication to the terminal; rather, the peripherals are “detected” support. on terminal-boot and usable without a specific terminal device group and specific terminal load definition. − New SurePOS 700 controller support • 4610 with Document Scanning support (4610-TI8, TG8, New SurePOS 700 models are also supported as a DI8, DG8) 4690 controller, just as IBM xSeries − Base 4610 functionality servers are supported as controllers. There is enough NVRAM on the planar to enable controller The new 4610 with Document Scanning will be support and the machine is supported as a supported just as previous 4610 printers — using controller without requiring an NVRAM adapter. the existing 4690 OS 4610 printer API. The printer This includes supporting the adapters that are on will be supported as a 4610 printer on all terminal the controller matrix — except for any loop models that are supported on 4690 OS, including adapters, which are not supported by the hardware. 4683 and 4693 terminals, including loop-attached All this information is included in the Controller terminals. Matrix at the following Web site by selecting KNOWLEDGEBASE: − Electronic Check Imaging support ′ http://www.ibm.com/solutions/retail/store/ The 4610 with Document Scanning s Electronic support Check Imaging functionality will be supported. The Electronic Check Imaging functionality is supported − New SurePOS 700 controller-terminal support only on Ethernet or token-ring attached terminals. New SurePOS 700 models, since they are supported • Support of Pointing Device on PS/2 -attached ANPOS as both controllers and terminals, are also keyboard on new SurePOS 700 terminals supported as a controller-terminal just as existing • InfoZip support machines are supported as controller-terminals. 4690 OS V3R3 will make use of InfoZip compression • Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) support technology in several internal OS functions to increase performance and provide improved compression for The built-in UPS on new SurePOS 700 models is files. InfoZip compression will be used in compression supported by 4690 OS. The UPS messages/status is of dumps, terminal load image creation, Create displayed on the 4690 System Messages Screen and Problem Analysis Diskette Utility, and Java 2 logs just as existing UPSs are supported. Existing UPS installation. support is for terminals only. However, if a SurePOS 700 is used as a controller or controller-terminal, the • Improved DHCP support machine will be able to use the power supplied by the built-in UPS even though no 4690 messages are A configurable option restricts the acceptance of DHCP logged. offers. This allows a 4690 to coexist with other DHCP servers on the network, and for 4690 DHCP clients to • Ethernet driver accept offers only from the 4690 DHCP servers. New SurePOS 700 models will have on-board Ethernet • 4610 Fiscal printer support support, and 4690 will be able to support the use of this on-board Ethernet for equivalent communication 4690 OS will support USB-attached 4610 Fiscal capabilities as SurePOS 75x machines — both as a printers. controller and as a terminal. • Redirected system messages • Support for 512 MB of RAM in terminals System messages can be redirected on the terminal 4690 OS will enable the use of up to 512 MB RAM for screen to the Java application without requiring the SurePOS 700 models and 4694 models that can application to poll for these messages. support 512 MB of memory. • Java 1.4.1 currency 203-242 -2- Reference information Refer to Software Announcement 202-014, dated January 29, 2002, and Software Announcement 203-044, dated February 18, 2003. Trademarks The e-business logo, SurePOS, SureMark, and SurePoint are trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation in the United States or other countries or both. xSeries and PS/2 are registered trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation in the United States or other countries or both. Java is a trademark of Sun Microsystems, Inc. Other company, product, and service names may be trademarks or service marks of others. -3- 203-242 IBM US Announcement Supplemental Information September 16, 2003 These displayable manuals can be viewed with the Adobe Offering information Acrobat Reader, which is offered free on the Internet. Terms and conditions for use of the machine-readable Product information will be available on day of files are shipped with the files. Instructions for displaying announcement through the Offering Information Web site the manuals is contained in the README file on the at: media. http://www.ibm.com/common/ssi Copies of the publications are also available for no charge using the following Web site and selecting and through the Passport Advantage Web site at: PUBLICATIONS, then OPERATING SYSTEM http://www.ibm.com/software/passportadvantage PUBLICATIONS: http://www.ibm.com/solutions/retail/store/support Publications Technical information A program directory and one copy of the following publications are automatically supplied with the base and migration machine-readable material: Specified operating environment Order Hardware requirements: IBM 4690 OS V3.3, without the Title number JVM enabled, will run on many platforms supported by IBM 4690 OS V2. With IBM 4690 OS V3, the 4693s are not 4690 OS V3 Library on CD-ROM SK2T-0494 supported as controllers. Additionally, some older (The CD-ROM documentation machines that have been supported by the 4690 are not is described below.) supported as controllers with V3. For V3.3, the minimum Program Directory GI10-6635 controller requirements are a P100 MHz processor with License Information GC30-9702 16 MB of RAM. Refer to the Controller Matrix on the Support Agreement Addendum GI19-0246 Knowledgebase for specific machines that have been withdrawn from 4690 controller support. Knowledgebase Displayable softcopy publications: IBM 4690 OS V3 is available by visiting the following Web site and documentation is offered in displayable softcopy form on selecting KNOWLEDGEBASE: CD-ROM. The following unlicensed manuals are included: http://www.ibm.com/solutions/retail/store/support • IBM 4690 OS V3: Users Guide, SC30-4044 With the JVM enabled, additional memory may be • IBM 4690 OS V3: Planning, Installation, and required depending on the size and number of Java Configuration Guide, GC30-4045 applications being run. In general, the use of Java 2 (Java 1.4.1) will require more memory and processor capability • IBM 4690 OS V3: Messages Guide, SC30-4046 than the use of Java 1 (Java 1.1.8).