FERMILAB6/16/98 DMACS Update Sam Segler FERMILAB

6/16/98 FIX Dynamics u Final Release on June 30, 1998 l EDA toolkit is compatible w/o update l Includes VBA, Active-X l Greatly improved interface, picture editor, and viewer l Will have converter for DMACS version 6.15 user pages, but not for older scripts u Allows scheme for changing colors for totalizer block data when outside tolerances u Complete conversion for existing user pages at end of year

FERMILAB6/16/98 Global Table Scheme u Fix Dynamics (FD) can tie all objects to external tables that allow one to change colors on the fly u FD Scheduler can then use the Process Database (PDB) to change the tables on the fly. This means we only have to keep tolerance values in the PDB. u Don Walsh is testing this now. It may require a later build than the beta that we have to make it work.

FERMILAB6/16/98 Requests for Detector Groups u Control of Devices l What type of control for shift (on/off/standby) l Who should set them? (experts, shift crew) l How to simplify to <75 alarms in a logical way? u Which Devices Need l ALARMED and MONITORED? l Written to the Data Tape? l LOGGED and at what rate?