Setup guide

OSx Migration Cookbook August 30, 2006
Appendix E – System Evaluation Tool Survey Questionnaire
Section 2 – Data, Functionality & Graphics Conversion Information
To be able to gauge the level of effort required, fill in the forms below. Some data may
not be directly transferable and may require custom programming such as using Global
Scripting and the User Archive.
1. Tags
OSx/PCS/Tistar type Tags must be imported into WinCC using OSx format install.tag
files. There should be one install.tag file per PLC, as the PCS 7/505 Database
Automation tool (DBA) uses the PLC of the first tag in the file for all the tags in the
file.
a) The table in Section 9 above shows the methods available for creating install.tag
files from the various versions of OSx/PCS/Tistar.
How will install.tag files be created?
b) If APT is the source of install.tag files, then APT must be new enough to create
OSx format files. Look at the APT compile screen for PCS version 3.X or 4.X.
Does the customer’s version of APT need upgrading?
c) DBA can only import networked tags from OSx/PCS/Tistar (tags that represent
data in a PLC). If the customer’s supervisory control logic uses non-networked
tags, then the tags must be recreated in WinCC manually as local tags along with
the supervisory control logic that uses them. This requires knowing how
OSx/PCS/Tags map to WinCC tags, and what features of PCS 7/505 can be used
to recreate the control logic.
Are non-networked tags used?
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