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IBM 4690 Operating System

Version 5 Release 2

Overview Features and benefits Specifications
Features and benefits
Feature          Benefits
Includes complex passwords with configurable rules for how passwords are constructed and how often they are changed
  • Helps strengthen controller security and comply with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS)
Forced sign-off
  • Protects unattended POS controllers if managers are called away to other tasks

IPSec (IP security)

  • Helps ensure secure Internet communications
  • Helps protect the network with authorization and encryption at the packet level
Secure Telnet and Secure FTP (SFTP)
  • Enables secure remote logon and file transfer, using robust Secure Shell (SSH) technology
Maintains tight compatibility with the IBM Store Integration Framework
  • Helps take advantage of a unified integration environment that speeds rollout of new hardware and software
  • Helps retailers manage store and customer data in realtime
Supports Java 2™, including the Java Virtual Machine Version 1.4.2
  • Enables the deployment of Java extensions to IBM applications
  • Allows the use of Java applications developed by independent software providers
Supports a wide variety of hardware, peripherals and software, as well as POS systems from IBM, including all models of the IBM SurePOS 700 Series
  • Helps protect IT investment
  • Enables retailers to retain current hardware and software, take advantage of advanced technology as it becomes available, and run everything on the same operating system
  • Allows retailers to add new capabilities at the right time, without replacing equipment or disrupting the store
Supports thin-client architectures
  • Minimizes hardware costs with low memory requirements and no mandatory hard disk
  • Store clients are automatically loaded and maintained by the controller, which helps keep support costs down
  • Helps reduce total cost of ownership
Allows retailers to run current and new hardware side-by-side, writing transaction data to the same log with the same integrity
  • Helps reduce total cost of ownership
Empowers teams to access multiple applications at the POS
  • Reduces the need for additional workstations in the store
Supports centralized systems management
  • Minimizes time and cost of maintaining multiple controllers and terminals, or multiple stores, remotely
Runs traditional and Java applications in terminal offline mode if the connection to the controller is lost
  • Improves availability
Includes task prioritization and multiuser/multitasking capabilities
  • Keeps store operations moving swiftly
Utilizes nonvolatile memory (NVRAM)
  • Helps protect the integrity of store data on controllers and terminals in case of power loss or network interruptions
Multiple controllers can back each other up
  • Helps ensure uninterrupted checkout and increases redundancy
Supports event forwarding to Remote Management Agent (RMA) systems management software
  • Helps increase centralized control of stores
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