NEW SOFTWARE RELEASE ==================== Products involved: AXIS 570, AXIS 670 Specific software: Release date: May 20 1998 Release type: PRODUCTION Software version: 5.45 Software media: AXIS 570 Flash AXIS 670 Flash Software checksum: AXIS 570 Flash AXIS 670 Flash Last preceding release: AXIS 570 5.42 AXIS 670 5.42 Flash loading instructions: See UpgrInfo.txt document Release document: 1.00 --------------------------------------------------------------------- NOTE: ===== The non SNA/IBM part of this release is based on Print Server software release 5.43. See Release Descriptions below for information on changes made to the non SNA/IBM parts of the software in the 5.43 release. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Easy Release Description: 1. Support for printing IBM SCS data using TCP/IP (LPR/LPD) as transport protocol has been added. 2. Support for printing IBM SCS/3270DS data using TCP/IP (TN3270E) as transport protocol has been added. 3. An IBM Emulator problem causing wrong print orientation has been solved. 4. An IBM Emulator problem causing the last line in a job not to be printed has been solved. 5. A SNA/5494 emulation problem causing printer devices to hang in VARY ON PENDING state after putting the AS/400 in restricted state or making IPL has been solved. 6. An IBM Emulator problem causing the Print Server sending too many new line commands to the printer has been solved. 7. TN3270E Information has been added on the testpage. 8. A parameter for specifying the telnet port in TN3270E has been added. This release is based on Print Server software release 5.43. The changes made in the 5.43 release is covered below: 1. The IP address, netmask, default router and trap address parameters can now be entered with dots between the numbers. 2. NetWare. Fixed a problem that prevented use of multiple queues in bindery emulation mode. 3. Fixed a problem that sometimes prevented the print server from announcing itself in NetWare. 4. Fixed a problem that sometimes prevented notification messages from being shown in NetWare NDS environments. 5. Status and accounting information is now updated periodically on the print server's internal web pages. 6. Configuration and management from the print server web pages don't require authentication if the root password is equal to the factory default value PASS. 7. Fixed a problem that made the print server hang sometimes when the IP address or net mask was changed during runtime. 8. Added support for HP OpenSpool. Now possible to print directly to the print servers IP address with LPR without having to specify a printer port. 9. Fixed a problem that prevented print servers with version 5.36 to appear in NetPilot if there was a router in between. 10. Fixed a problem causing the print server to hang sometimes when print jobs were canceled. 11. Improved reliability of flash loading. This applies to both FTP and IPX flash loading. 12. Fixed a problem that could cause infinite authentication pop-up messages when using MS Internet Explorer for configuration. Recommendation: - An update to this release is recommended if any problems, related to the above changes, have been observed. Best regards AXIS COMMUNICATIONS AB ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Appendix A - DETAILED TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION OF RELEASE App A Products involved: AXIS 570, AXIS 670 Software version: 5.45 1. Support for printing IBM SCS data using TCP/IP (LPR/LPD) as transport protocol has been added. This allows LPR/LPD printing from AS/400 hosts without the use of Host Print Transform. 2. Support for printing IBM SCS/3270DS data using TCP/IP (TN3270E) as transport protocol has been added. This allows SCS and/or 3270DS data to be sent to the Print Server from a mainframe, using a TN3270E server between the host and Print Server. TN3270E elliminates the need for Host Print Transform in the host when using the TCP/IP protocol as transport for IBM print data streams. 3. An IBM Emulator paper orientation problem has been solved. Before, changing between landscape and portrtait orientation between print jobs could cause the printout to have wrong orientation. 4. In some cases the last line in a print job would not be printed until the next job was sent to the Print Server. This problem is now solved. 5. No further information. 6. When using the GENERIC printer bank, the Print Server could send too many NL commands to the printer, causing wrong formatting of the printout. The problem would occur when using the DIS (Disable) option for the MPL parameter. 7. TN3270E Information has been added on the testpage. The information include server IP adress and session state. 8. A parameter for specifying the telnet port in TN3270E has been added. In some configurations the default telnet port(23) can't be used. This parameter makes it possible to use a different port than the default. This release is based on Print Server software release 5.43. The changes made in the 5.43 release is covered below: 1. The IP address, netmask, default router and trap address parameters can now be entered in the format "aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd" in the configuration file. A space between each number will also work as before. 2. No additional information. 3. In some situations during start-up the print server did not send out necessary advertising information resulting in that the unit was not visible for a NetWare server. This problem is now solved. 4. In some situations the print server did not send notification messages when set up in NetWare NDS environments. This problem is now solved. 5. The status is updated every 5 seconds and the accounting page every 5 seconds. 6. No additional information. 7. If the IP-address or the subnet mask of the print server was changed while one or more reverse telnet port were configured (set to something else than 0), the print server could hang and would have to be manually restarted. 8. The print jobs sent using e.g. OpenSpool will be printed on the printer defined in the parameter DEF_OUT (accessed from NetPilot General property page, value "Internal Printout Destination"). 9. Software release 5.36 introduced a problem in the NetWare RIP protocol which prevented the print server from appearing in the list of servers on the file server when placed on the other side of a router. 10. When removing print jobs from the pending job list, the print server sometimes hang. This problem is now solved. 11. The flash loading is now more reliable. When upgrading a unit that has a software revision lower than 5.39, the flash loading could fail. For units with revision 5.39 or higher, flash loading is more robust. 12. When the authentication information was split in two packets the print server would not recognize the password. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Appendix B - SOFTWARE LIMITATIONS App B Products involved: AXIS 570, AXIS 670 Software version: 5.45 1. The SNA stack is single host only. Multiple IBM hosts cannot access the Print Server simultaneously. 2. Although it is possible to define several logical units on the IBM host system, the AXIS 570/670 will only print one SNA job at a time. SNA Jobs are held in a print queue within the AXIS 570/670 and are processed on a first-come-first-served basis. 3. The SNA parameters LU_NAME and CP_NAME must be equal. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Appendix C - AFFECTED MATERIAL App C 1( ) Product involved: AXIS 570, AXIS 670 Software version: 5.45 Draft texts for manual updates: NPS Technical Reference Support for editable character tables added and the text in "AXIS HP-MIO TECH REF 1.1 ADDENDUM Editable character translation" shall be inserted in the NPS Technical Reference. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- END OF RELEASE DOCUMENT.