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>From: Chris Novy <address@hidden> >Organization: Southern Illinios University >Keywords: 200001052026.NAA18062 OS2-750 dmnids Hi Chris- >I realize OS/2 McIDAS (especially 7.10) is no longer supported but I >have a quick question. Were there any Y2K compliance issues concerning >ingestion of NIDS data? There are now! ;-) see below. >I no longer work for Southern Illinois >University but I'm providing "remote support" for them. > >They are seeing messages like: > > Queuing WSI NEX/PAH/VEL4/200001050010 > Processing WSI NEX/PAH/VEL4/200001050010 They should see the decoding messages after this. Something like: M0NIDSDC -- BEGIN PRODUCT CODE=R5 5 001640 M0NIDSDC -- DONE AREA 483 They can check the status of the decoder by typing: DECINFO LIST DMNIDS if it lists as inactive, they can activate it by typing: DECINFO SET DMNIDS ACTIVE It shouldn't automatically deactivate, so if it is inactive, then I'm not sure how it would get that way. >I know there were some NLDN issues but I don't recall anyone writing >about NIDS. The changes to the NLDN datastream should not have affected the OS/2 decoder since it does not use the LDM header information to get the date and time. I haven't been feeding NLDN to my OS/2 box, but I just started it up and it seems to work, however there are no lightning flashes since 12Z so I can't really verify this. >Is it possible the OS/2 ingestor somehow suspended >processsing of these products and all they need to do is a RELEASE? That's my guess, but.... I just noticed on my OS/2 machine that the dates in the NIDS AREA files are coming out as 5 instead of 100005. I was able to create a new binary of the decoder on my OS/2 system (tested briefly) and I've put this new version of the decoder (dmnids.exe) in the os2/750/bugfix directory of the McIDAS FTP account. You could install this version of DMNIDS in c:\mcidas\user\code, deactivate the decoder and then reactivate it to get the new binary: from the OS/2 command prompt (assuming McIDAS executables are on C:): c: cd \mcidas\user\code ftp ftp.unidata.ucar.edu (login using umcidas/XXXXXX) cd os2/750/bugfix bin get dmnids.exe quit in McIDAS: DECINFO SET DMNIDS INACTIVE DECINFO SET DMNIDS ACTIVE Note, after the AMS meeting next week, my OS/2 system will become a Windows NT system, so I will not be able to solve future OS/2 problems that require code changes. If SIU wants to continue running McIDAS, they will have to move over to McIDAS-X. Don Murray >From address@hidden Wed Jan 5 16:15:50 2000 Thanks. I'm downloading 7.60 for UNIX right now. We'll see if I can get it running remotely. ..Chris..