Alex, Thanks for your clarification on this question. I thought I had heard that the ICC or IACC was a user choice moving forward and this confirms it for me. Although the FF support only in IACC is likely only the beginning as new technologies develop that need new drivers and configuration interfaces to be developed. Thanks, Tom -----Original Message----- From: foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Johnson, Alex (Foxboro) Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2005 10:14 PM To: foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: [foxboro] IACC Product and Integration with existing I/A tool s Q: Is the ICC supported under V8.x of the I/A Series Yes. The ICC is fully capable of configuring all control blocks in a CP. However, IACC will eventually have features not available to ICC users and which will preclude the use of the IACC in some cases. For example, our FF implementation will use IACC to configure both the field devices and the controller that supports them. To make this process as painless as possible for our users - that is, to stay in the process control market for FF based systems, we are designing the IACC to configure the FF blocks and the required CP blocks at the same time. Since a CP can be owned by only one configurator - ICC or IACC in this conversation - and since only one configurator - IACC - will support FF device configuration, the use of our best FF configurator precludes the use of ICC on those control stations. Got it? Of course, if you don't care about FF, this is not an issue. Regards, Alex Johnson Invensys Process Systems Invensys Systems, Inc. 10707 Haddington Houston, TX 77043 713.722.2859 (voice) 713.722.2700 (switchboard) 713.932.0222 (fax) ajohnson@xxxxxxxxxxx -----Original Message----- From: foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of tom.vandewater@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2005 2:38 PM To: foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: [foxboro] IACC Product and Integration with existing I/A tool s Dwayne Landry wrote: "Our stand here at PPG is to continue to use ICC until we start getting the new 8.x in with new hardware that requires IACC to enable functionality. ( AB FBMs, etc.. ) At that time we will be adding IACC to administer these new CPs." Can somebody from Foxboro verify that the ICC will not be made capable of supporting new functionalities of the new 270 series CP's? (via new ECB's and blocks etc.) Thanks in advance, Tom VandeWater _______________________________________________________________________ This mailing list is neither sponsored nor endorsed by Invensys Process Systems (formerly The Foxboro Company). Use the info you obtain here at your own risks. Read http://www.thecassandraproject.org/disclaimer.html foxboro mailing list: //www.freelists.org/list/foxboro to subscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=join to unsubscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=leave _______________________________________________________________________ This mailing list is neither sponsored nor endorsed by Invensys Process Systems (formerly The Foxboro Company). Use the info you obtain here at your own risks. Read http://www.thecassandraproject.org/disclaimer.html foxboro mailing list: //www.freelists.org/list/foxboro to subscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=join to unsubscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=leave _______________________________________________________________________ This mailing list is neither sponsored nor endorsed by Invensys Process Systems (formerly The Foxboro Company). Use the info you obtain here at your own risks. Read http://www.thecassandraproject.org/disclaimer.html foxboro mailing list: //www.freelists.org/list/foxboro to subscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=join to unsubscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=leave