Re: [foxboro] Spare I/O points

This sounds like a utility that we could all benefit from.
Are you planning on submitting this to Cassandra?

Mark Dumond

-----Original Message-----
From: Pat Martens <foxpat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Aug 23, 2005 1:37 PM
To: foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [foxboro] Spare I/O points

I'm sorry, I don't have a simple script to determine the spare FBM I/O 
points.

Just for your consideration:

Having faced simular questions in the past I've created some scripting which 
will output a number of files which we then import into an visual basic 
ms-access application. This is completely automated an run's at least once a 
day (sheduled or on demand).
The things you can do once you have your CIOCFG, display linking, historian 
config, sequence references, DMCplus/AspenIQ references, Aspentech CimIO 
(simular to PI), WASP references etc .. all available in a relational 
database system !!
One of the things the visual basic import routine does is cheching all 
ECB's, creates a list with configured FBM's (including type) and generates 
an IO table from this including SPARES ! (also checks duplicate input 
usage.)

You want to know on which FBM201 you have spares available? Just run a 
query: where type="201" and tag="spare" from IO (or something like that).
This basically is valid for all the above mentioned information: you can run 
any query you can think of.

You will need a bit of spare time to write something like this but once 
you've got it you wonder how you managed to do without.

Some other features build in:
* Block browser includes pressing the 'block help button' which will 
automatically start-up FoxDoc and shows me the doc sheet for that particalur 
block type.
* A tree view of block references, includes linking to other blocks, display 
refs, sequence refs, hist refs, wasp refs, trendscript refs etc.
   Very handy when you would like to delete a block!
* Sequence code viewer when a sequence block is selected in the browser, 
pressing the 'sequence code' button. This will read the sequence code 
(including included files depending on possible #ifdef''s) and show these in 
seperate windows.

(system: 6.3, WP51D's, AW51E's, mainly CP60's)

To conclude: IMHO you can come a long way with scripting but you can't beat 
having your data available in ms-access (or equivalente) !

Kind regards,

Patrick Martens
Total raffinaderij Nederland N.V.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Baptiste, Nigel" <NBaptiste@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2005 4:22 PM
Subject: [foxboro] Spare I/O points



Hello list,

Does anyone have a simple script that I can use to easily determine my =
spare FBM I/O points?
I'm running version 6.3 Unix.

Thanks,
Nigel S. Baptiste
Power Generation Company of Trinidad & Tobago Limited
Port of Spain Power Station: Cor. Park & Flament Streets, Port of Spain
Telephone: (868) 623-4889 Extension 3861
Mobile: (868) 681-0021                      =20
Fax: (868) 625-3868
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email: nbaptiste@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:nbaptiste@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>=20




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