OA USERS GROUP MEETING

July 1997

The monthly meeting of the OA Users Group was held 31 July 1997 at 1400 hours, at the Occupational Measurement Squadron, Randolph AFB, San Antonio, TX. Elena Weber, OMYX, chaired the meeting.

  • Those in attendance included:

    Elena Weber        AFOMS/OMYX        652-5811  WeberE@mail.omsq.af.mil
Mike Ostrander     AFOMS/OMYV        652-5030  Ostrandm@mail.omsq.af.mil
Timothy O'Neil     AFOMS/OMYX        652-5811  ONeilT@mail.omsq.af.mil
Janice Buchhorn    AL/HRTD           536-4005  Buchhorn@alhrt.brooks.af.mil
Jimmy Mitchell     IJOA              349-8525  IJOAJLM@aol.com
Pat Waldroop       IJOA              349-8525  waldroop@metricanet.com

    1. Mr. Hand reported on the upgrade of CODAP to year 2000 compliance. The subroutine "datime.f" was modified to properly convert the year code returned by local system subroutine "localtime" (number of years since 1900) to the correct 2-digit literal. All programs were recompiled. Testing was performed after changing the local system date to year 2000, and then again tested after restoring the date to the present. Several programs required special attention:

      • Due to additional optimization, the program MODGEN no longer compiled successfully. Two arrays called MIN and MAX created a conflict with the Fortran MIN and MAX functions, generated by the optimization. These array names were changed, and the program compiled successfully.

      • The date cutoff field on the FACSXX processor call was removed. This feature was somewhat useful on the Sperry, as the program could be very slow when processing large Task Factor files, but has no real relevance on the RISC. The default documented "sort" on date created is not a true sort. The factors are simply listed in the order in which they are added to the file, so the year 2000 creates no special problems. This "sort" also applies to REPSXX.

      • SYSTEM was modified to read a seven-digit date field from the file "codap.sysfile". The extra digit can be used in the first month of the year 2000 to ensure proper reporting of changes.

    2. OMS reported a problem with printing multi-page DIAGRMs from a Report file. Unable to duplicate the problem, the original data from OMS will be required to further examine this anomaly.

    3. The next meeting will be at 14:00 hours, Thursday, 28 August.


    Elena Weber
    AFOMS/OMYX