Re: Unidata/Wisc upgrade finished

Tom Yoksas wrote:

> >All of the product generation software has also been recompiled. A couple 
> >minor
> >issues cropped up, but nothing serious.
> 
> Anything worth mentioning?

The floater McBASI script was modified to correctly deal with the
DATE$. I don't remember the details, but I think it had something to do
with the date string not getting correctly converted back to a value.

The other problem was a bug in scana.pgm. This is a program that we use
to create a QC display. There was an array overrun that didn't surface
until I compiled it under f2c and gcc.

> I just switched.  I will monitor this for a couple of hours and let you
> know if anthing appears to be amiss.
> 
> <15 minutes later>
> I saw the first images come in from unidata:
> 
> Jul 12 18:31:53 lwtoa3[25713]: PRODUCT CODE=UA          99193       183142
> Jul 12 18:31:54 lwtoa3[25713]:  Done -- AREA= 165
> Jul 12 18:32:12 lwtoa3[25714]: PRODUCT CODE=UA          99193       183200
> Jul 12 18:32:13 lwtoa3[25714]:  Done -- AREA= 166
> Jul 12 18:34:05 lwtoa3[25716]: PRODUCT CODE=UC          99193       183347
> Jul 12 18:34:06 lwtoa3[25716]:  Done -- AREA= 63
> Jul 12 18:34:27 lwtoa3[25717]: PRODUCT CODE=UC          99193       183405
> Jul 12 18:34:28 lwtoa3[25717]:  Done -- AREA= 64
> Jul 12 18:35:58 lwtoa3[27267]: PRODUCT CODE=UI          99193       183522
> Jul 12 18:36:03 lwtoa3[27267]:  Done -- AREA= 157
> Jul 12 18:36:08 lwtoa3[27286]: PRODUCT CODE=UI          99193       183521
> Jul 12 18:36:12 lwtoa3[27286]:  Done -- AREA= 158
> Jul 12 18:36:16 lwtoa3[27320]: PRODUCT CODE=UW          99193       183603
> Jul 12 18:36:17 lwtoa3[27320]:  Done -- AREA= 219
> Jul 12 18:36:34 lwtoa3[27368]: PRODUCT CODE=UW          99193       183612
> Jul 12 18:36:35 lwtoa3[27368]:  Done -- AREA= 210
> 
> The question is why I am receiving two of the same kind back-to-back?

This was because during this testing period I am generating the
products on both gold and unidata. The LDM on unidata was configured to
receive products from gold, so unidata was receiving it's own products
plus the products generated on gold. This has been corrected.

> >Also, one quick question. Since we are no longer broadcasting the MD's and
> >GRID's etc, we are assuming you no longer want these data archived in the
> >Unidata/Wisc archive. Is this true?
> 
> Well, I figured that these products wouldn't be available after they were
> dropped from the datastream.  If they still are, could we keep sticking
> them into the archive for a litte while?  What I am think of is a second
> safety net for some sites that have been slow getting moving to XCD
> (even though we gave them over a year :-).  I am thinking that letting
> this run for another one to two months couldn't hurt.  If this turns
> out to be a pain, then we can not do it.  If it is a no brainer, then
> let it run for awhile.

Shouldn't be a problem. I have the BROADCAST=YES|NO keyword on the jobs
that produce this products. I've added BROADCAST=NO to the invocations
of these jobs.  The products should be created and archived, but not
sent out the broadcast.

> On another subject:
> 
> Recently, you asked for my NIDS/NOWRAD ADDE server stuff.  Have you
> had time to play with it (I know you are real busy)?  If so, have you
> noticed that in order to really make the NIDS work nicely you really
> should make mods to most of the IMG* commands?  Also, if you have tried
> to get the NOWRAD stuff working, you will have undoubtedly noted that
> you need an additional navigation module since the WSI navigation for
> the 8 km US composite is a "squished" lambert conformal.

I haven't played with this too much yet. Currently we have two commands
NIDSDISP and NIDSLIST which perform NIDS listing and displaying. I was
thinking of simply making the necessary modifications to these apps to
add the ID= sort clause to the server request. This may or may not work
- I'll let you know.

-Chad

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Chad W. Johnson                           E-mail: address@hidden
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