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NUMBER 293-188
DATE 930406
TITLE PLANTWORKS STARTER SERVICES/2 AND PLANTWORKS DISPLAY SERVICES/2
ABSTRACT Additions to the PlantWorks (R) product family are announced
today; the new products are Starter Services/2 and Display
Services/2.
Starter Services/2 provides PlantWorks functionality on a
stand-alone node. It serves as a starter set for PlantWorks
application development and minimizes system resource requirements
and greatly reduces installation complexity. It is a low-cost way of
gaining access to PlantWorks capabilities. There is no
communication, networking or distribution support which in effect
makes the Starter Services/2 node an island of automation. The
Starter Services/2 node includes build-time support for developing
and documenting applications. It allows applications to be created
from a group of defined services, such as alarms, automatic event
responses, reports, retained historic data, the data to be operated
on, the logic to be applied to that data, and the graphical displays
to present that data to the operator. Starter Services/2 includes
run-time support for application monitoring, real-time graphical
application displays, report execution, debugging and diagnostic
capabilities as well as other run-time services.
An upgrade charge will be provided to customers who want to
migrate from a Starter Services/2 single node to a PlantWorks network
environment.
Display Services/2 provides support for viewing and
interacting with PlantWorks manufacturing-control applications
running on other nodes in the network. It provides the user with
real time monitoring and control access to an existing PlantWorks
system. Display Services/2 provides such run-time services as:
o Monitoring applications
o Controlling applications
o Viewing and printing warning logger data and event logger
messages
o Accessing restricted services.
Display Services/2 can only be used in conjunction with other
nodes in the PlantWorks network. This product will provide a
lower-cost solution for supervisors and front office people who need
only a monitoring and control application.
Starter Services/2 and Display Services/2 contain subsets of
existing PlantWorks products.
Planned Availability Date: April 9, 1993.
Product Numbers:
5713-ADU Starter Services/2
5713-ADZ Display Services/2
(R) Registered trademark of International Business Machines
Corporation.
IN BRIEF . . .
Two new products provide access to a subset of PlantWork's
functions at lower costs.
Display Services/2 offers:
o Lower costs
o Real time monitoring
o Control access
o Significantly easier installation and configuration.
Starter Services/2 offers:
o Entry-level PlantWorks without network communications
o Single node product
o Lower costs
o Significantly easier installation and configuration.
PRODNO 5713-ADU
5713-ADZ
OVERVIEW DESCRIPTION
INCREASES APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT PRODUCTIVITY
Starter Services/2 provides a set of services that significantly
increase productivity in developing factory software applications as
well as ensuring an overall fit across a variety of industries.
It allows manufacturing and/or process engineers to create
applications by graphically manipulating block objects into logical
chains, linking manufacturing events and data to graphical displays,
and utilizing a rich set of wide-ranging application facilities.
Starter Services/2 allows customers to develop applications on
a single stand-alone node and to run with or without an application
development capability.
Starter Services/2 will support single node PlantWorks
functionality without the ability to communicate with remote nodes.
It provides this reduced communication function environment to serve
as a starter set for application development while minimizing system
resource requirements and significantly reducing complexity.
LOW COST MONITORING AND CONTROL CAPABILITY
The Display Services/2 product enables display-only operation of
remote nodes. This product reduces network traffic and allows more
nodes to be supported on a single PlantWorks network. Display
Services/2 provides the customer with real time monitoring and
control access to a PlantWorks network.
Display Services/2 allows the plant operator to monitor and
control plant floor equipment, as well as perform other duties such
as entering data, displaying trends, requesting reports, responding
to alarms, and other functions.
BUSINESS SOLUTIONS -- CUSTOMER SATISFACTION
Benefits derived from applications created with Starter Services/2
will increase your customer's satisfaction. Among the benefits your
customers may realize are shorter order-to-delivery times, on-time
deliveries, consistent high quality, and more competitive pricing.
Any one of these benefits can strengthen your position with
customers. Together, these improvements can help sustain healthy,
ongoing supplier/customer relationships.
BUSINESS SOLUTIONS -- COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE
The more effective use of plant resources, made possible by
applications created with Starter Services/2, can help you realize
added productivity. They can help you respond faster -- to
customers, to competition, and to market changes by helping you
develop and maintain tighter business controls.
Display Services/2 will allow you to reduce your operational
costs by providing your supervisors and front office personnel with
the capability of monitoring and controlling operations on the plant
floor.
BUSINESS SOLUTIONS -- OPERATIONS COST REDUCTION
Starter Services/2 allows users to create applications in support of
plant operations. These applications use PlantWorks facilities that
provide a consistent application execution environment.
BUSINESS SOLUTIONS -- ENHANCED COMMUNICATIONS
Communications between multiple organizational areas within a plant
may be enhanced via a local or plant-wide network utilizing the
networking capability of Distributed Application Edition. The
PlantWorks product Display Services/2 offers a low-cost solution for
monitoring and controlling these network communications.
GROWTH ENABLEMENT -- ACCESS TO ENTERPRISE DATA
Display Services/2 can help boost your corporate information assets.
The timely, reliable information gathered from the plant floor can be
used throughout your enterprise to help you work smarter, and grow
stronger, in today's complex manufacturing environment.
GROWTH ENABLEMENT -- CONSTRAINT RELIEF
Starter Services/2 can help you reduce your application costs,
eliminate production bottlenecks, and streamline your work flow. It
offers you immediate, as well as long-range, benefits.
GROWTH ENABLEMENT -- CONNECTIVITY
Starter Services/2 can be used today to address application needs in
specific cells or areas. Tomorrow, as your needs expand to
company-wide networking, the same applications can be a part of your
company-wide system of Computer Integrated Manufacturing.
Display Services/2 is now available to office personnel who
would not have installed PlantWorks on their desks in the past due to
cost.
END USER PRODUCTIVITY -- APPLICATION AVAILABILITY
Starter Services/2 reduces the cost of application development and
cell implementation. With the PlantWorks approach, you have the
flexibility to implement systems cell by cell or plant wide and the
application solutions that start at cell level don't have to end
there. Besides giving you immediate results, IBM's plant floor
strategy complements long range goals.
END USER PRODUCTIVITY -- PLANT OPERATORS
Starter Services/2 provides an advanced graphical user interface for
definition and operation with the applications. This interface uses
the services of OS/2 (R) Presentation Manager (R) and complies with
the Common User Access (TM) (CUA (TM)) graphical model, with minor
exceptions. This consistent view of the product shortens the user's
learning curve and enables a commonality of operation for all
applications developed using Starter Services/2.
(R) Registered trademark of International Business Machines
Corporation.
(TM) Trademark of International Business Machines Corporation.
END USER PRODUCTIVITY -- ENGINEERS
Because they can use their own skills and expertise to solve plant
operations problems, your engineers achieve added control of their
manufacturing process by developing problem-solving applications with
Starter Services/2.
Display Services/2, through its monitoring and control
capabilities, will shorten the time from problem recognition to
problem solution, resulting in increased productivity.
End User Productivity -- Management Information Specialists
Your management information services can readily realize
advantages with PlantWorks. The self-documenting feature of
PlantWorks applications provides easier maintenance after
applications are completed, thus freeing up MIS personnel to focus on
plant-wide solutions and making MIS specialists more productive.
INVESTMENT PROTECTION -- ASSET PROTECTION
Starter Services/2 provides asset protection because it allows
applications to be easily created, replicated, modified, and
maintained over time. The use of symbolic references to all
resources used within PlantWorks allows resources to be physically
relocated without affecting the application, displays, and reports
which reference these resources.
SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT -- IMPROVED SYSTEM AVAILABILITY
Starter Services/2 provides alarms to monitor situations and thus
help plant operators anticipate problems before they happen and
before they get out of control.
Should a critical situation occur, using Starter Services/2,
an engineer can easily predefine a step-by-step course of action to
automatically correct the problem. Optionally, PlantWorks displays
can be used to present operators with alternatives and allow them to
determine the best solution to the production problem. In this way,
extensive downtime is avoided and work can resume as quickly as
possible.
SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT -- SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION
System administration is enhanced by functions and capabilities that
deal with management of the system:
o Printer management
o Systems error detection and reporting
o Run-time event logging
o Product installation
o Product configuration
Starter Services/2 and Display Services/2 improve these systems
management functions and provide a low-cost way to get started or
expand your network capabilities.
SYSTEMS APPLICATION ARCHITECTURE (R) (SAA (TM)): PlantWorks complies
with the Common User Access (CUA) interface of IBM's Systems
Application Architecture. PlantWorks uses the advanced graphical
capabilities of the OS/2 Presentation Manager to ensure an
easy-to-use consistent interface.
(R) Registered trademark of International Business Machines
Corporation.
(TM) Trademark of International Business Machines Corporation.
PRODUCT POSITIONING
The PlantWorks family of products, including Starter Services/2 and
Display Services/2, fits within the IBM CIM Architecture as an
initial implementation of an Application Enabler and Build Time
concepts as described in the IBM CIM Architecture. PlantWorks takes
full advantage of the facilities and functions of Distributed
Application Edition (DAE), a Systems Enabler within the IBM CIM
Architecture. IBM OS/2 Presentation Manager is utilized, and as
such, PlantWorks conforms to SAA by adhering to CUA standards.
PlantWorks interoperates with other IBM CIM Advantage products such
as COPICS and MAPICS (R) via the facilities of DAE, as well as other
DAE-based applications within the enterprise. PlantWorks is intended
to be used by plant floor personnel, or third parties, in the
development of applications designed for use by Manufacturing and
Process industry customers. Examples of commonly developed
applications using PlantWorks include:
o Cell Monitoring and Control
o Work-in-Process Tracking
o Statistical Process Control
o Monitoring and Reporting of critical processes
o SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) types of
applications
The two new products fit within this overall umbrella by providing
their own unique functions.
Starter Services/2 supports single node PlantWorks
functionality without the capability of communicating with remote
nodes. It serves as a starter set for PlantWorks application
development.
Display Services/2 provides the product user with real time
monitoring and control access to a PlantWorks network.
(R) Registered trademark of International Business Machines
Corporation.
CUSTINFO EDUCATION SUPPORT
The appropriate curriculum will be updated, as necessary, to
include the enhancements in this announcement.
Details of the education support will be provided by product
availability through separate Education Announcements.
Descriptions of all classroom and self-study courses are
contained in the CATALOG OF IBM EDUCATION (G320-1244).
Call IBM Direct Education at the toll-free number,
800-IBM-TEACh (426-8322), for schedules and enrollments or refer to
MSE.
TECHINFO TECHNICAL INFORMATION
SPECIFIED OPERATING ENVIRONMENT
MACHINE REQUIREMENTS: One of the following processing units:
o IBM Industrial Computer 7537 and above
o IBM Personal System/2 (R) Model 50 and above
Also needed:
o Keyboard
o Mouse or similar pointing device recommended for build activities
o One VGA or XGA (R) display and adapter combination
o One high-capacity diskette drive (3.5-inch -- 1.44MB)
o Fixed-disk drive (see recommendations below)
PlantWorks programs will support touch screens, displays and
adapters, fixed disk drives, diskette drives, printers, and
communications adapters supported by Distributed Application Edition
Communications System/2 (5601116) with the following recommendations:
o Minimum fixed-disk drive of 60MB for Display Services/2 nodes
o Minimum fixed-disk drive of 100MB for Starter Services/2 nodes.
NOTE: Additional memory and fixed-disk requirements for a given
processor environment will vary depending on the IBM Operating
System/2 (R) Extended Edition 1.3 or OS/2 (R) Version 2.0 functions,
the IBM Plant Floor Series (TM) Distributed Application Edition
functions selected, the PlantWorks functions and the user
applications installed. The programming requirements section shows
the PlantWorks products and minimum memory and fixed-disk storage
required.
(R) Registered trademark of International Business Machines
Corporation.
(TM) Trademark of International Business Machines Corporation.
PROGRAMMING REQUIREMENTS
DISPLAY SERVICES/2
This section describes the environment of the system required to
install and execute Display Services/2.
Display Services/2 operates under the Operating System/2
Extended Edition Version 1.3.2 or Operating System/2 Version 2.0. It
is a self-contained package and contains all other prerequisite
software except the support for communications between nodes. If you
are using OS/2 2.0, NETBIOS support can be found in the Extended
Services (TM), LAN Enabler, or NTS/2 products. If you wish to use
APPC, this is available in the Extended Services product. Order
numbers, feature codes, and part numbers for these products are
listed here.
ORDER FEATURE PART
PRODUCT NUMBER CODE NUMBER
Extended Services/2 5871-AAA 2778 96F8326
Network Transport
Services/2 5871-AAA 3787 96F8444
LAN Enabler 5871-AAA 2881 96F8359
NOTE: If you are using OS/2 Release 2.0, you must have the fix for
APAR PJ03686 installed.
There are no special programming requirements for Display
Services/2.
(TM) Trademark of International Business Machines Corporation.
STARTER SERVICES/2
This section describes the environment of the system required to
install and execute Starter Services/2.
Starter Services/2 operates under the Operating System/2
Extended Edition Version 1.3.2 or Operating System/2 Version 2.0. It
is a self-contained package and contains all other prerequisite
software.
NOTE: If you are using OS/2 Release 2.0, you must have the fix for
APAR PJ03686 installed.
The following special requirements may be necessary for
writing user functions that may be added to the library of PlantWorks
functions, or for programming additions to the Realtime Interface
Co-Processor operations, or for writing client application programs
that communicate with Starter Services/2.
1. IBM Operating System/2 Programming Tools and Information
Version 1 Release 2/Release 3 (6024929) if Operating System/2
Version 1.3 is used
-- or --
2. IBM Operating System/2 Programmer's Toolkit, 5871-AAA (10G3355)
if Operating System/2 Version 2.0 is used.
3. IBM C/2 Version 1.1 for Personal System/2 and Personal Computers
(6280284).
The following are required for development of tailored
functions for the Realtime Interface Co-Processor:
o IBM Realtime Interface Co-Processor Developer's Kit Version 2.01
(5669-176)
o Realtime Interface Co-Processor C Language Support Version 1.03
(5601-060)
To use information in SQL databases, you must have the
following products and options installed:
o OS/2 Database Manager with Structured Query Language (SQL)
database.
STORAGE REQUIREMENTS
In addition to Distributed Application Edition and OS/2 Extended
Edition or Extended Services requirements, the following minimums are
also required:
PROGRAM MAIN PROCESSOR
NAME MEMORY (MB) DASD (MB)
Starter Services/2 18.0 22.0
Display Services/2 10.0 15.0
These storage sizes reflect minimum storage requirements for
the main processor (Industrial Computer or Personal System/2) and do
not include Realtime Interface Co-Processor memory.
Additional main storage and DASD requirements for a processor
environment will vary, depending on the IBM Operating System/2
Extended Edition or Extended Services and PlantWorks functions
selected, and user application requirements.
A minimum of 60MB of fixed-disk space is recommended for all
Display Services/2 nodes.
A minimum of 100MB of fixed-disk space is recommended for the
Starter Services/2 node.
LIMITATIONS: Starter Services/2 is limited to a single node
operation.
PLANNING INFORMATION
PACKAGING: Packaging information for the two announced products
follows:
o Display Services/2 shipped via four 1.44MB 3.5-inch diskettes.
o Starter Services/2 shipped via nine 1.44MB 3.5-inch diskettes.
Included for your convenience is an updated version of the
micro code for the Multiport 2 and Portmaster (R) Realtime Interface
Co-Processor adapters.
(R) Registered trademark of International Business Machines
Corporation.
SECURITY, AUDITABILITY AND CONTROL
The announced programs provide facilities for security access
control to any user requesting application program services. These
facilities are used to restrict access to specific services. Logon
IDs are used to control access.
User management is responsible for evaluation, selection, and
implementation of security features, administrative procedures, and
appropriate controls in application systems and communication
facilities.
ORDERING ORDERING INFORMATION
NEW LICENSEES
Orders for new licenses will be accepted now. Unless a later date is
specified, orders entered prior to the planned availability date will
be assigned a scheduled shipment date of April 16, 1993.
Shipment will commence one week after the planned availability
date. Orders entered after the planned availability date will be
assigned a scheduled shipment date for the week following order
entry.
New users of Display Services/2 should specify:
TYPE MODEL
5713 ADZ
New users of Starter Services/2 should specify:
TYPE MODEL
5713 ADU
Users who are upgrading from Starter Services/2 to Execution
Services/2 should specify:
TYPE MODEL
5713 ADS
BASIC LICENSE: To order a basic license for Starter Services/2,
specify the program number and feature number 9001 for asset
registration. Specify feature number 0700 for a one-time charge.
To order a basic license for Display Services/2, specify the
program number and feature number 9001 for asset registration.
Specify feature number 0702 for a one-time charge.
To upgrade from a Starter Services/2 basic license to an
Execution Services/2, specify the program number and feature number
9001 for asset registration. Specify feature number 0704 for the
upgrade charge. Specify the feature number of the desired
distribution medium shown below.
BASIC MACHINE-READABLE MATERIAL: To order, select the feature number
of the desired distribution medium:
FEATURE DISTRIBUTION
ENVIRONMENT NUMBER MEDIUM
OS/2 Starter Services/2 5518 3.5-inch disk
OS/2 Display Services/2 5519 3.5-inch disk
CUSTOMIZATION OPTIONS: Select the appropriate feature number(s) to
customize your order to specify the delivery options desired. These
features can be specified on the initial or MES orders.
EXAMPLE: If publications are not desired for the initial order, and
for future updates, specify feature numbers 3470 to ship media only,
and 3480 to ship media updates only. In the future if publication
updates were required, order an MES to remove feature number 3480,
and the publications will ship with the next release for the program.
INITIAL SHIPMENTS
FEATURE DESCRIPTION
3444 Serial Number Only (suppresses shipment of
media and documentation)
3470 Ship Media Only (suppresses initial
shipment of documentation)
3471 Ship Documentation Only (suppresses initial
shipment of media)
UPDATE SHIPMENTS
FEATURE DESCRIPTION
3480 Ship Media Updates Only (suppresses update
shipment of documentation)
3481 Ship Documentation Only (suppresses update
shipment of media)
3482 Suppress Updates (suppresses update
shipment of media and documentation)
OPTIONAL MACHINE-READABLE MATERIAL: None
DSLO LICENSE: To order a DSLO license for Starter Services/2,
specify the program number and feature number 9024 for a one-time
charge.
To upgrade from a DSLO license for Starter Services/2 to a
DSLO license for Execution Services/2, specify the program number and
feature number 9025 for the upgrade charge. Customers who have at
least one basic license for Execution Services/2 may choose to
upgrade their additional Starter Services/2 basic licenses to
Execution Services/2 DSLO licenses. To do so, specify the program
number and feature number 9025 for the upgrade charge.
To order a DSLO license for Display Services/2, specify the
program number and feature number 9026 for a one-time charge.
Ordering a DSLO feature will result in IBM maintaining a
record of this customer location as a DSLO user only. All material
for the DSLO license must be ordered by the basic licensee. If a
user selects DSLO, no other feature numbers are valid for this order
and no program materials or updates will be shipped.
UNLICENSED DOCUMENTATION: A memo, program directory, and one copy of
the following publications are supplied automatically with the basic
machine-readable material:
o Starter Services/2 Licensed Program Specifications (GC28-9685)
o Display Services/2 Licensed Program Specifications (GC28-9684)
The following optional publications will be available after
product availability:
STARTER SERVICES/2 (5713-ADU)
o System Concepts (SC28-8260) and TNL (SN28-9681)
o Operating PlantWorks (SC28-8254) and TNL (SN28-9677)
o Using Execution Services 2 (SC28-8257) and TNL (SN28-9680)
o Installing and Configuring PlantWorks (SC28-8253)
o Using Definition Services/2 (SC28-8255) and TNL (SN28-9678)
o Definition Services/2 Functions (SC28-8256) and TNL (SN28-9679)
o Planning and Implementing PlantWorks Applications (SC28-8251) and
TNL (SN28-9676)
o Introducing PlantWorks (SC28-8250) (Separately orderable)
DISPLAY SERVICES/2 (5713-ADZ)
o Using Execution Services/2 (SC28-8257) and TNL (SC28-9680)
o Operating PlantWorks (SC28-8254) and TNL (SN28-9677)
Additional copies of unlicensed publications will be
available, for a fee, after product availability. These copies may
be ordered from your IBM marketing representative, through the system
library subscription service (SLSS), or by direct order.
Subsequent updates (technical newsletters or revisions between
releases) to the publications shipped with the product will be
distributed to the user of record for as long as a license for this
software remains in effect. A separate publication order or
subscription is not needed.
The availability of translated publications will be announced
at a later date.
TERMS AND CONDITIONS
LICENSING: These programs are licensed under the terms of the IBM
Customer Agreement.
DESIGNATED MACHINE IDENTIFICATION REQUIRED: No.
VARIABLE CHARGES APPLY: No.
INSTALLATION LICENSE OR LOCATION LICENSE APPLIES: No. A separate
license is required for each machine on which the licensed program
materials will be used.
EDUCATIONAL ALLOWANCE: A 15% educational allowance is applicable
toward eligible license charges and is available to qualifying
institutions in accordance with the Educational Allowance Attachment.
The educational allowance may not be added to any other
discount or allowance.
VOLUME DISCOUNT: Volume discounting is available under the IBM
Customer Agreement and the Exhibit for Plant Floor Series Licensed
Programs (Z125-4236).
Plant Floor Series Licensed Programs are in Category A.
The volume discount applies to both Basic and DSLO one-time
charge licenses.
WARRANTED: Yes.
LICENSED PROGRAM MATERIALS AVAILABILITY: Restricted Materials -- No.
These licensed programs will be available without source licensed
program materials. They will be available in object code.
TESTING PERIOD: Basic License -- Two months. DSLO -- Not
applicable.
PROGRAM SERVICES: Central Service, including a Support Center, will
be available until discontinued by IBM upon six months' written
notice. Programs in this announcement are supported by the ISD
Product Support -- Boca Raton. Access to this Support Center will be
provided through the IBM Support Center.
Central Service, including the ISD Product Support -- Boca
Raton for DSLO licenses, will be provided only through the customer
location designated for the basic license.
CHARGES
BASIC DSLO
ONE-TIME ONE-TIME
PROGRAM NUMBER CHARGE CHARGE
5713-ADU $8,000 $7,200
5713-ADZ 2,895 2,606
UPGRADE TO EXECUTION SERVICES/2 FROM STARTER SERVICES/2
BASIC DSLO
ONE-TIME ONE-TIME
PROGRAM NUMBER CHARGE CHARGE
5713-ADS $3,000 $2,700
ONE-TIME CHARGE: Customers who pay a one-time charge for a licensed
program receive enhancements and future releases, if any, at no
additional charge. Significant new function may be offered as an
optional feature and charged for separately. If a replacement
program is announced and the customer elects to license the
replacement program for a one-time charge and replace the prior
program, an upgrade charge may apply.
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