Minutes of OTFC Mtg 6/3/99

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DADS (Tony Houston) -

The operational DADS system is working. OTFC is operating.

Another quick fix was installed to handle a problem of running out of network connections for file transfers. This will hopefully correct the problems encountered with large requests.

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OPUS (Mike Swam) - The calibration pipeline is operating.

Mike is developing the common switch rules system for OTFC. It is expected to be done by mid-June. Testing is going on. Mike will talk with Lisa about interfacing the rules system with the OTFC change system.

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getref/upref (Bernie Simon) - Nothing new

Action Item: Ed Hopkins will investigate whether this behavior can be made consistent with DADS, so OTFC processed data can be ingested.

ACTION ITEM: Bernie and Ed will investigate keyword placement for switches.

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Change System (Lisa Gardner, Steve Lubow, & Bernie Shiao) -

Action Item: Lisa is to develop support for the pending datasets table.

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STIS (Bernie Shiao, Ed Hopkins, Grace Mitchell, Melissa McGrath)

Action Item: Bernie Shiao will investigate the level of effort required to retrieve the 2700 or so WAVECAL datasets. Lisa will determine the effort required to make the database changes and the ingest process changes for WAVCALs. Since there is no short-term need to change these values, this effort is of low priority.

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Testing (Grace Mitchell, Melissa McGrath, Steve Lubow, Steve Slowinski)

Mike has begun some testing.

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Operating status (Steve Lubow) - It is hard to tell whether the system is operating, as we recently found. The Starview welcome screen informs users of planned OTFC downtimes or unplanned downtimes that are likely to last several days. We discussed means of determining DADS and OTFC status by polling various system indicators.

Action Item: Lubow to develop a tool to provide better OTFC status information and to provide that info on the OTFC web page.

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OTFC Meeting: (lubow@stsci.edu)