System information

Using Flash Cards with the Network Station

PCMCIA Adapter on the Series 1000 is

07L8336

and can be ordered in the

GEMS ordering system in the US and Canada, and the UPOS ordering

system in EMEA. Contact your IBM Network Station Sales Representative or

Business Partner to order these adapters.

IBM has tested Flash cards from Centennial Technologies

(http://www.cent-tech.com) and cards from Simple Technology

(http://www.simpletech.com) the latter of which offers a full line of D series

cards. Refer to Table 15 on page 64 for a list of current Flash card part

numbers available from Centennial Technologies and Simple Technology.

3.2 Booting from a Flash Card with 5250, 3270, and VTxxx Support

In this scenario, we provide a remote site the ability to boot the IBM Network

Station and run the 5250, 3270 and VTxxx emulators from the Flash card.

This connection is through a slow or heavily utilized WAN. The volatile data is

data that is subject to change either on a daily basis or during a software

upgrade which is kept on the central system. User authentication using

ACTLogin also occurs on the central system.

3.2.1 Scenario Objectives

There are four objectives in this scenario. These objectives are:

• Load the Network Station kernel from the Flash card.

• Load the executable modules for running a 5250, 3270 and VTxxx

emulation from the Flash card.

• Use ACTLogin and the server separation function to authenticate the user

at the central site.

• Load the user configuration, fonts and other volatile data from the central

system, allowing it to be maintained centrally using the IBM Network

Station Manager program.