DMACS Update

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DMACS Update

• Sam Segler

FERMILAB
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FIX Dynamics

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

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Global Table Scheme

• Fix Dynamics (FD) can tie all objects to external
  tables that allow one to change colors on the fly
• 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.
• Don Walsh is testing this now. It may require a
  later build than the beta that we have to make it
  work.

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Requests for Detector Groups

• Control of Devices
• What type of control for shift (on/off/standby)
• Who should set them? (experts, shift crew)
• How to simplify to lt75 alarms in a logical way?
• Which Devices Need
• ALARMED and MONITORED?
• Written to the Data Tape?
• LOGGED and at what rate?