Enhancement or Fault Number

Remove Host

Remove Mainsail Host.  Mainsail host has been removed from WinEPS. Once upgraded to the 827.2 version, this host will no longer be available for processing.

Discontinued OS Support

MS Discontinued Support for Windows 2000.  According to the Microsoft site, Microsoft has discontinued support for the Windows 2000 operating system. As such, this OS is no longer a supported operating system for the WinEPS/OpenEPS software.

New Feature (WinEPS)

Improve handling of potential bad KEK3 in registry (827.2).

During the End of Day process, WinEPS will verify the current encryption against the stored value; if different WinEPS will automatically generate a new key and re-encrypt all encrypted transaction files with the new key.

New Feature (WinEPS)

Retry critical file access.

When accessing critical files, if the file is unavailable, WinEPS will try multiple times to access the file instead of failing immediately. This will assist in overcoming issues that might arise due to short term file locks, such as during a virus scan or system operation.

New Feature (WinEPS)

Shut down on critical registry access error.

To prevent the possibility of incorrect file handling due to missing registry security information, in the event that WinEPS is unable to read/write to the Windows registry, the WinEPS service will shut down with a warning message listed on the WinEPS menu.

New Feature (WinEPS)

Medigate/OTC Gift Card Support.

Add support for Over The Counter gift cards.
When a gift card range is defined with an OTC ProgramID in the Gift Card Card Prefix Table, the gift card will be identified with the ISOTC flag when it is used at OpenEPS. The POS can pick up this flag and perform specific functionality related to this card type.
OTC cards support only purchase, return and balance inquiry transactions.

New Feature (WinEPS)

Update WinEPS encryption modules. 

New Feature (WinEPS)

Updated WIC Packages.

New Feature (WinEPS)

Credit/Fleet Prefix logic change.  Updated the WinEPS Fuel interface so that if a transaction is received from fuel lane with a tender type of credit and the card number used is located successfully in both the Credit and Fleet prefix tables, the transaction will be handed as a Fleet transaction, and the request for additional Fleet data will be returned to the fuel lane pump.

New Feature (WinEPS)

BDE installation removed.  The Borland Database Engine installation has been removed from WinEPS and will no longer install with WinEPS. WinEPS no longer requires the use of BDE.
 The Configuration | Terminal Configuration > Other Lanes settings have been removed. BDE was previously used for these lanes.

New Feature (WinEPS)

Remove signature lines on Credit Voids.  Removed Signature line from Credit Void receipts. Signatures are not required for voids.

New Feature (WinEPS)

Added Discover Korean BC Credit Prefix Ranges.  New Discover Card ranges have been added to WinEPS for the Korean BC card. These new prefixes are linked to the standard DS Discover card code.

New Feature (WinEPS)

Increase default for archives stored.  In the event that the configuration file is missing or corrupted, the default time for storing archives is set to 90 days to allow for troubleshooting and avoid any potential loss of info.

New Feature (WinEPS)

SOAP File Download changes. 

To improve the speed of lanes becoming active, some changes have been made to the SOAP file download feature. Instead of having a 3 minute time out for all files, if the file to be transferred is under 2MB, timer is set to 30 seconds instead; files over 2MB will retain he full 3 minute time out.
File transfers that fail will be retried multiple times, in order to attempt to transfer the time to the lane.
Additional logging has been put in place in the engine to identify the IP address lane that is making the file download request.

New Feature (WinEPS)

Add Digital ID config to B TAC.  Added Digital ID setting to the B � Slide Card TAC.

New Feature (OpenEPS)

Freq Shopper / Digital ID Enhancement.

Added a new feature to the B - Slide Card TAC to display a Digital ID button.
When configured and using the screen files that support this new button, the Digital ID button will appear on the screen for customer selection. The customer can then either slide their payment card or select the Digital ID button. When selected the customer is prompted for their Frequent Shopper number, which is then stored in the FrequentShopperData function for the POS to pick up.

New Feature (OpenEPS)

New FrequentShopperData function & Data Entry Mode 13.

A new EntryMode of 13 (Numeric entry OR Payment Card Slide) is now available for the Data Entry function call. This Entry Mode is used in DigitalID prompting, and activates both the keyboard and the MSR, with any keyboard entry placed in DataEntryValue, and the Card swipe treated as a payment card.

New Feature (OpenEPS)

DataEntry Continue.  Added new call DataEntryContinue to OpenEPS that the POS can call in order to instruct OpenEPS to move on to the next action sequence.

New Feature (OpenEPS)

Revise OpenEPS startup.

Improved OpenEPS startup routine in order to avoid potential issues that could cause hanging.

New Feature (OpenEPS)

New function to provide original card type to POS.

The new WinEPSCardTypeOriginal function has been added to OpenEPS that provides the Card Type data prior to any conversion of the card type to FSA. This function is useful in determining the original card type used by the customer in an FSA transaction.

Updated Feature

Local System Account not supported.

Due to the necessity of consistent read and write access to the Windows Registry, as well as limiting account scope to satisfy PCI requirements, WinEPS will not run if the WinEPS service is configured to use a Local System Account.
If the WinEPS Service is configured to use Local System Account, the WinEPS service will abort start up, and will shut down processing.
Upgrade and installation packages have been updated to prompt the user for new account information in the event that the service was previously installed, and found to be using a �Local System Account�.

WinEPS Fix

TOR sent to host incorrectly updates pending offline.  Corrected an issue with offline pending transaction when it's corresponding TOR was processed to the host.

WinEPS Fix

WinEPS SOAP download fail after EOD. Corrected an issue where file download would fail after WinEPS performed an End of Day.

WinEPS Fix

10054 Error.  Corrects an issue where a TCP/IP error 10054 was not being correctly handled which could cause the engine to become unresponsive.

WinEPS Fix

Remove unused term code box.  Removed Terminal Code File box and selection button from WinEPS GUI for VX670, VX570, and Omni 3750 stand beside terminals, as that option was not used for these 3 terminal types.
Removed Terminal Code File box and selection button from WinEPS GUI for the Everest and Omni 7000 terminal as the terminal code files in use by these terminals are not dynamic.

WinEPS Fix

Old process.xml setting interfering with CPP xlm 'Skip sig' setting. 

Corrected an upgrade issue where the previous global setting for skipping the signature under a given $ amount was not correctly added to the new card process profile setting and deleted from the old configuration file location.
OpenEPS has also been updated to ignore the old setting, so as to prevent interference with the current configuration in any store location that has already performed an upgrade.

WinEPS Fix

b - Verify Card option to Verify Last 4 Card Digits.  Corrected menu issue with selecting and configuring the b � Verify Card TAC.

WinEPS Fix

Invalid socket handle.  Resolved an issue where the server was receiving repeated Windows errors related to socket disconnects, which affected transaction processing.

WinEPS Fix

SOAP File uploads stream in 1MB packets.  File transfer using SOAP now streams files in 1 MB packets. Previously the whole file was loaded into memory and transferred as one packet, which caused larger amounts of memory to be required to transfer successfully.

WinEPS Fix

EBT voucher with void not set to host. Corrected an issue where the Void of an Offline EBT Food voucher transaction is set up to the host, but the original purchase was not. This has been revised so that both the initial purchase and the void are correctly processed to the host.

WinEPS Fix

OpenEPS receipt message format.  Corrected an issue with unformatting card numbers sent to WinEPS as part of the signature capture receipt transactions.

WinEPS Fix

Update Engine to match current Backup.bat file.  Resolved an issue where not all files were zipped up into the Backup.Zip file during the end of day process.

WinEPS Fix

Status info listed in the log.  Corrected the formatting of the status message in the WinEPS Log file, and limited the size of the string printed.

WinEPS Fix

Increased memory use getting MAC address.  Fixed an issue where increased handles and memory use happens when WinEPS Engine perform MAC address checks on the NIC card.

WinEPS Fix

Add module date stamp to logging.  To improve the ability to identify the files in use, in addition to the standard logging of the module version numbers, the change data will also be reported in the logs.

WinEPS Fix

Transaction uses wrong buffer.  Resolved an issue with the ScanMaster Version 1 interface where transactions coming in from other lanes in the middle of an ongoing transaction were using wrong buffer.

WinEPS Fix

Uptime logging error.  Corrects an issue that would cause �catastrophic error� to be incorrectly and unnecessarily logged in the spool.

WinEPS Fix

Lane start up logging. Update logs so that lane type logged is consistent with what is listed in WinEPS menu.

WinEPS Fix

Correct ZIP file process failure.  Corrected an issue where a large number of lane journal files uploaded to WinEPS at the same time would cause zip archiving failures. Archiving is now handed in series by creating a queue of log file to zip.

WinEPS Fix

Import of DebitBIN.eps.  Corrected an issue with the import of the DebitBIN.EPS file provided by the ServerEPS Bin File Service. This file will now import correctly and update the BIN file listing in WinEPS.

OpenEPS Fix

POSVerifyCardLast4 incorrectly defined.

OpenEPS Fix

Tender Type Status set to Loop for Gift and EBT.

Corrected an issue where the tender type status was not being se to OK if the POS set EBT Food or Gift as the tender, with the $ - Purch/Bal Inq TAC in the transaction sequence.

OpenEPS Fix

OpenEPS Not Downloading Files from Backup Server.

Corrected an issue where OpenEPS would not switch over to the backup WinEPS server to download files when the primary server was no longer available.

OpenEPS Fix

Revise credit cash back.

To prevent unnecessary prompting, the Cashier Ok Cashback TAC will not be processed for credit when the cashback amount is $0.

OpenEPS Fix

Travelers Checks declined for cash back only.

Fixed an issue with Travelers checks being incorrectly declined at the POS if only cash back was entered.

OpenEPS Fix

Customer display not correct on manual entry.

Fixed issue when manual entry is selected during the transaction, and get PAN from PIN pad is not set, the appropriate prompt was not displayed.

OpenEPS Fix

File Downloading impacts payment connection.

Corrected an issue were file downloads that took a long period of time, or that failed were causing the payments connection from the lane to WinEPS to disconnect. The issue has been corrected by limiting the re-tries of failed files, and ensuring that the payments connection does not disconnect regardless of the success or failure of the file downloading.

OpenEPS Fix

Unsupported card error when Raw MICR set as Primary ID. 

OpenEPS Fix

Void Last transactions getting MTX-131 declines

OpenEPS Fix

Check with Secondary ID and cashback issue.

Corrected an issue where a check that uses the Secondary ID Prompt for Check Type with the customer cash back TAC would cause the POS to loop indefinitely on waiting for the SCAT Status.