Software Release Note for ISOC version 12.6

(click here for SRN history)

Author: Paul Balm [paul.balm@esa.int]
Date: 07-08-2006
Summary: Various different Screws and SPRs

Dependencies

System name ID Version
ISOC Core System (PHS, OSS and CSS) core 11.16 (new)
ISOC Database DB 6.7 (new)
ISOC FD Server application fdserver 1.10 (new)
ISOC Web web 4.0 (new)
Proposal Generation Tool PGT 4.2
Proposal Receiver PRV 2.0.0
Proposal Loader PLD 4.3
Mailer Daemon MLR 2.2
Push Pull Daemon PPD 1.3
ISOC Observing Time Estimator ote 4.2
ISOC Target Visibility Predictor TVP 4.1

External dependencies:

System name ID Version
Integral File Transfer System IFTS 2.0
Flight Dynamics Software FDS 2.2i
Database of Observable Bins DBOB 88
Optical Monitoring Camera Pointing Software OMC 3.7
OMC Source Catalogue OMC_CAT 5
ED Viewer IODB 30.05.06

Fixed SPRs in core v11.16:

PHS:

SPR 787 Corrected problem that pattern start and end points could not be edited.

OSS:

SPR 756 Problem irreproducible. Actions leading to occurrence of problem verified to be non-standard operations. (developer report)
SPR 777 The check-box to fix the GSHO's during scheduling will be enabled a configurable number of days before a revolution. If the user unchecks it before starting scheduling, he will be warned with an improved warning message. The CCS domain property that specifies the number of days is 'oss.fixGSHO.days' and currently set to 5 days. It is no longer possible to modify the checkbox while scheduling is in progress (this had already been fixed before).
SPR 785 When a perigee entry would be manually entered in OSS, that is already invalid in the current revolution, the scheduling would terminate without an error message. An appropriate message will now be shown.

CCS:

SPR 786 The import of an IODB with new parameters (i.e. parameters that thus far had not existed in the ISOC database) would not lead to the actual storage of the new parameters in the ISOC database. This has been fixed.

Implemented SCRs in core v11.16:

PHS:

SCR 515 To allow inspection of the partially scheduled observations, for example before an IODB import or change of defaults, a 'percent completed' filter has been added to the observation selection screen. This filter allows to select observation based on the amount of time they have been scheduled for, as a fraction of their approved plus extra time.
SCR 566 Using the existing proposal/subscription filtering capabilities, the user can choose to have only Key Programme related proposals and subscriptions to be displayed. This is a fix over what was implemented in ISOC system 12.5.
SCR 569 The ISOC/ISDC ICD was updated to version 2.5. The proposed changes were to accommodate Key Programme subscriptions and their source lists in the files sent to ISDC (PAD and IOP). The proposed changes have been implemented.
SCR 570 Using the amalgamation GUI one can construct lists of observations to be amalgamated. It is now allowed to have one, but no more than one, fixed-time observation in such a list, together with non-fixed-time observations.

OSS:

SCR 511 The planning map / sky display that is always e-mailed out to the Project Scientist is saved to file along with the summary and the statistics, when the appropriate button is clicked in OSS. (developer report)
SCR 512 A catalogue of bright sources can be imported from a menu option in the CCS menu. After this the bright sources will be displaying in the sky displays in OSS, with the option of hiding them. When visible, they can be clicked to yield the source name and coordinates.
SCR 553 To complete the implementation after what was done for ISOC system 12.5, the Source column has been widened.
SCR 571 A switching stub script for the OMC pointing software has been added to the scripts directory (scripts/omc_ps_switch.sh) and has been installed and configured on the play system to act as the omc_ps command. This allows users to schedule and generate POS files using OSS from both Linux and Solaris workstations.

CCS:

SCR 476 User interface to save and dismiss domain properties clarified as per Screw specification.

Implemented SCRs in DB v6.7:

SCR 511 When querying scheduling information per revolution, the user can select to see the planning plot for that revolution. A table was added to the DB to store these plots. (developer report)
SCR 512 A catalogue of bright sources can be imported from a menu option in the CCS menu. A table to store the bright sources has been added.

Fixed SPRs in fdserver v1.10:

SPR 668 If not all the output is present because Flight Dynamics has encountered some error, not this fact is reported ("Label POSANG not found"), but the error code is parsed and a message with the meaning of the error is returned. The most common error is that no orbit data is available for requested date. Unfortunately, many times when this happens, Flight Dynamics will report an initialization error, which is still not very descriptive. This cannot be improved within the ISOC software though.
SPR 775 A separate installation of the Flight Dynamics command line tools is kept, which is compatible with the Flight Dynamics server on the web server. Instructions for use of these tools have been added to the user documentation page (under ISOC / Software documentation on the internal webpages).

Implemented SCRs in web v4.0:

SCR 511 When querying scheduling information per revolution, the user can select to see the planning plot for that revolution. (developer report)
SCR 551 RA and Dec parsing is limited to normalized values only. (This is solved in a library -isoc-util v1.9-, hence all subsystems benefit from this improvement)