Ed: We are running AIM* as off-platform historian for exactly this kind of purpose. It is not cheap, but it is a very good value for our engnineers and business types who want process data for problem solving, reporting and accounting. AIM* can be instructed to bring in any tag that the I/A has configured. It has a variety of ways to configure data sampling rates, and has some primitive statistical functions, like max and avg. It comes packaged with DataLink, an application that does all the data retrieval functions you describe, and it responds well to ODBC and SQL calls from third-party apps. Like Excel. We have a variety of Excel/VBA programs to share, on request. Nancy -----Original Message----- From: Ken Heywood [mailto:kheywood@xxxxxxxxx]=20 Sent: Monday, August 25, 2003 7:23 AM To: foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: [foxboro] Data collection software for Sun I/A I believe that Lotus on Sun boxes has Foxboro extensions that can =3D snapshot process block data. You could set up a spreadsheet template for =3D one row, duplicate the rows, and then edit/replace the block names = in =3D each row. You could export that spreadsheet using TCP/IP to whatever = =3D machine/tuning package you desire. If you are looking for some sort of heuristic tuning as found in some of =3D these third party packages, I'm curious as to why you don't use the = =3D exact block? Is it that bad? -----Original Message----- From: Ed Zychowski [mailto:Ed.Zychowski@xxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2003 8:07 AM To: foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [foxboro] Data collection software for Sun I/A Hey list, We are looking for a new method to get data from our unix based I/A =3D systems (AW51E) for loop tuning. I am currently looking into OPC servers which = =3D seem to work well but require block configuration at both the OPC server and =3D OPC client side. It is also very expensive. What I would like is = a simple application where I can type in the tags I'm interested in (typically PID.MEAS, PID.SPT PID.OUT) and the sample rate. The application would =3D then put the data in a file in ASCII format. I thought before I wrote =3D something I'd see what your using. Thanks in advance for your help. =3D20 =3D20 _______________________________________________________________________ This mailing list is neither sponsored nor endorsed by Invensys Process Systems (formerly The Foxboro Company). Use the info you obtain here at your own risks. Read http://www.thecassandraproject.org/disclaimer.html =3D20 foxboro mailing list: http://www.freelists.org/list/foxboro to subscribe: =3D mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=3D3Djoin to unsubscribe: =3D mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=3D3Dleave =3D20 =20 =20 _______________________________________________________________________ This mailing list is neither sponsored nor endorsed by Invensys Process Systems (formerly The Foxboro Company). Use the info you obtain here at your own risks. Read http://www.thecassandraproject.org/disclaimer.html =20 foxboro mailing list: http://www.freelists.org/list/foxboro to subscribe: = mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=3Djoin to unsubscribe: = mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=3Dleave =20 _______________________________________________________________________ This mailing list is neither sponsored nor endorsed by Invensys Process Systems (formerly The Foxboro Company). Use the info you obtain here at your own risks. Read http://www.thecassandraproject.org/disclaimer.html foxboro mailing list: http://www.freelists.org/list/foxboro to subscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=join to unsubscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=leave