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g/^~ j RegulatoryU.S. Nuclear 0+5en o' informatonInformation Technology S" n se~ ices

Services Support Center\...../ Commission R'|,c|g,,and Training Laboratory

BappyAnniversary!

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ITS IS THREE YEARS OLD!

This vinter the ITS is 2262 individual staff mem- "**

celebrating the completion bers represented, 179 are THE ISSUE AT HANDof its third year of ser- located in the regions.vice to NRC's computer iTs is Three vears oldi .1

users. When the Training Lab ITs New tocation . .3

opened, there were 156 PCs o,yi .g,33, p;io, p,c,,ci .3Development of the ITS as in the agency. Today

g,g ,y,,,m M,0,,,c,t,,n 3two complementary facili- there are more than 1000,

ties, one providing struc- (See NRC's 1000th PC In- configunno our Mooem .4v

tured hand 6-on ADP train- stalled, Page 6). Fig. 1 IBM 9370 installed - .4

ing and the other provid- shows the growth in the n,gion i u,c,o 7,,,n,ng 5ing technical support for number of PCs in use by

NRC's 1000th PC instaneo .6computer users, began in the NRC.1983. It culminated in Docum'n' controi system . .7

the opening of the ITS The number of sof tware scientific coce distribution .8

Training Laboratory on packages installed has SINET Update . 9October 15, 1984, and the grown concurrently. As of

Training calencar .10ITS Support Center on November 5, 1987, 7100January 10, 1985. Since copies of software pack- PC User Group Updates . .11

then the Training Lab has ages had been installed on software Traveiog. .12 |

conducted 533 courses for NRC machines. Fig. 2 Tech Notes . .13

5200 participants. Of the shows the number of copies

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INSTALLEO PCs of rcprestatativa coftwareFY 1984 - 1987 '.

pcekages installed.1000 955

800| As the number and types of,,

2 $34 microcomputers have in-n. . 600 creased, the ITS SupportO Center has increased its$ 400| 423 technical support to com-2 puter users. In late

E 1986, the average number200i

157 of users served per month,

! reached a peak of 257.1984 1985 1986 1987 All of this activity has

YEAR been directed to increas-Fiqure 7 ing the capability of NRC

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MICROCOMPUTER SOFTWAREIN USE AT NRC

NOVEMBER,1987 Initially, ITS concentrat-1200ed on the rapidly growing

'23.1 number of microcomputer.

$ ggg .' ey- users. As computer util-

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--5784 kept pace. Training har

600 ' been expanded to include$ all major microcomputer] 400 ' ' sof tware used in the NRCz 238

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eA$ic cBASE ooS/GTo SMAATERM oTHER g Ven to regional train-{gg, (ggg y{g, 3,)XTALK D/WAITE LoTUF 5520 ATTACH

SOFTWARE PACKAGE

Figure 2With the advent of such

ITS TRAINING LAB end-user systems as SINETPARTICIPATION BY COURSE and INQUIRE, the emphasis

FY 1985 - 1987 of future training and,

2000 support will shif t to1800 mainframe connectivity., ,,

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7 the same -- to assist NRC200 120_

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DAVIS BESSE PILOT searches on his IBM PC/XT accesses ISAM files, par-PROJECT hard-drive unit and the ticularly ad-hoc reports

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aoftware, written in MARKIV, please !In July,1987, a pilot This project was initiated contact Chuck Fitzgerald |

| project was begun to test to determine storage re- at 492-8322 for assistance| the use of PCs by project quirements, speed, and in converting them. d

managers for immediate complexity of loading andaccess to, and word operating. Other searchsearching capability of software and storage .aedia ITS New Loc'ationTechnical Specifications, such as optical disks, are

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Final Safety Analysis Re- also being studied by IRM. 7The iN support denw in nowports and Emergency Plans. *ce-m in two lommons -

' Personnelin the Whhe Flint areaNIH SYSTEM wm find support cen= eerwces i

Fr. Al Diagazio, Project MODIFICATION ! *vanabiat h ana locaua la~

IManager for Dayis-Besae, Station C-12 on the third floor of '

NRR and Mr. Walter Magee, Phyllis Smith Rja'gThgaupp=1

Acting Division Director - P-8081n the Phdipe Building. - ,

of Information Support The support and use of the P .. . . ' J , i :

Services, obtained $520 NIH Computer Facility In- y'["8,

document disks from Toledo dexed Sequential Access ., .o , j

Edison , Inc. , the licensee Method (ISAM) will be dis- Telephone Numbers: '

for the Davis-Besse pro- continued July 11, 1988. Bg meo~ ject. It will be replaced by the

Virtual Storage Access White Flint supportcenw 2mThese documents were Method (VSAM), which has ,

transferred from disk to been in use at NIH fot Training tab 2-4744

an NRC 5520 by Lee Berry, some time.NRR. The Technical Spec-

VSAM is IBM's most advanc-ifications docums.nts weredownloaded to s PC and ed acetss method for stor-

subsequently converted to age and retrieval of data ITS NEWS CreditsASCII by Karen VanDuser, in OS/VS and DOS /VS oper-ITS Support Center, for ating systems. {e iTjEWS s a c

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use with a PC text search of inrewst to users et compater

software package, ZY1NDEX. ARM's Information Systems yfe","[[yyn,',',"[,, $ ('gc'i8 5D

43 files were loaded into Branch (ISB), which has formation Technology Services

ZYINDEX. responsibility for com- S|||,," c nter an T a ningo, n co nc n ,n ,n,

puter systems software NRC's Office of Personsa

The ZYINDEX sof tware has maintenance, is converting your amcies. ,deas. auestions

the ability to search all the necessary systems to and comments are weicomeo-P orwara them to the ITS

parts or any number of comply with the NIH , ,aparts specified for a change. Some systems thatgiven character string. will be changed are h" ,"|| fn p92

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It builds indexes for all IACKFIT, FEES , GIMICS , P-808 Ph@ps Bldg

words in th6. documents and LMS, RITS, SIMS, and 766. g,,,,a p,,,,,n, g gy i73g

records the location of Execut>ve Editor

these words within the Implementation of the up-Douglas Vic erv. USDA.GS

documents. It also can E5ades necessary to comply Managing Editor

search for words in a spe- w3th the NIH revisions Carolyn B. Bassin. CP TBEA

cified proximity to other will be completed by May Pro,ect uanage,

words in the text of the 1988.John Vogtewede. ARM!lTSB

document. .chief

Some applications devel-The documents and indexes, oped by NRC users of NIH **"N[c'[o"*IS ain1n abas well as the ZYINDEX may also be impacted bysoftware, have been in- the VSAM conversion. On%n c" aoh$c"s' Section

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stalled on Mr. Diagazio's If you have developed amachine. He can perform computer code that

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CONFIGURING YOUR -,

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nBrian Brownell 7,. m

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pri . , , aUsing the IBM PC for tele- e i ff '

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tively easy with properly f' 3

qk . .: rinstalled equipment. For/fnew systems, or for exist-

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which a modem has beenadded, the process can be %3

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puzzling. '

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1stor) is used to communi- ~' l g/

cate digital information i

over a telephone line. A' V

modeu allows a microcom- IBM 9370 INSTALLEDputer user 1.o communicate

with other, possibly re-mote, computer systems. On November 6,1987, the first IBM mini-computer

ever acquired by NRC was switched on by WalterMagee, Acting Director of IRM's Division of In-

One of the most popular fomation Support Services. David Diehl, Chief ofmodems, the Hayes Smart- DISS/ Computer and Telephone Operations Branch, ismodem, contains micro- at left. The computer, one of a new line fromswitches that are used to IBM, has 16 megabytes of main mer.ory and 1.7 giga-control device options. bytes of disk storage. It will be used to run allThe switch settings are VM operating system applications at NRC, includingdescribed in an appendix PILOT (part of SINET), PROFS and INQUIRE. Pur-to the user's manual for chase by NRC of the $558,000 machine, includingCROSSTAIJC, the most common software, marks a shi.ft from dependence on leasingcommunications ' software computer time at other installations.package at the NRC.

Other types of modems are To configure them, the mands are described in thebeing distributed with communications software instruction manual provid-device options which are should be loaded into the ed with the modem. Thecontrolled by software computer. When the on- changes are stored inrather than switches. Two line condition is indicat- non-volatile memory andexamples of such modems ed, the user should type need be made only once.are the RacaL-Vadic 2400VP in the command string

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and Anderson-Jacobson For further information on jAJ2414-STH modems. Neith- AT6F6016D26W (Enter) obtaining a modem or dataer of these modems are line, please call thecompatible with CROSSTALK Af ter this string has been Telecommunications Branchas delivered. They will entered, the telephone at 492-7927. For informa-appear to be on-line or carrier will drop and nor- tion on modem configura-connected before the com- mal Hayes conventions can tion, or assistance in

munications software has be used. The comn:and making these changes,had a chance to dial. NRC string modifies the Car- please call the Informa-has approximately 20 of rier Detect (CD) and Data tion Technology Servicesthe Racal-Vadic modems and Terminal Ready (DTR) sig- Support Branch at 492-170 of the Anderson- nals between the modem and 4160. E l

Jacobson modems. the computer. The com-

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~3 year yet for training in 1

g the Regions, with a total l'

gj . of eleven classes present-yN~ '7 ) ed. These classes have

f a been notable for theirp$

|tailoring--of trainingM a

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'objectives, audience,and

p!schedult--to meet the spe-/ ,.

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cial needs identified by'.

Regional Administrators.+

W #i For example, Region II*

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#e requested training to help16 Resident Site secretar-w

ta ies transfer word pro-'

*cessing skills from Dis-c

3 j playWrite 2 to Display-Write 3. This training

Arenda Holladay Trai: sing Region V Staffincorporated into thewas

agenda of the annual Resi- jdent Site Secretaries imeeting in Atlanta, mini- I

miring staff travel costs.Regional Microcomputer early training classer, The next day, the instruc-Training recalls the delight of

these end-users, mostlyBanks Mitchum and typewriter veterans , with

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Kathy Beckman " advanced" features like Figure 1-1 - .f_Jgautomatic Search and Re- CMmr

Microcomputer training for place. t "NH'b 8!#'

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ITS TRAINING IABMNRC personnel based inREGIONAL TRAINING HISTORYRegional offices has been ,, , , , . , , , ,

an integral part of NRC The focus of regional Year Loca' tion Cour$eNI!,

end-user training since training in 1986 and early j- ci .:4 w WLthe opening of the ITS 1987 changed from a single 1984RIIIDispls[ Whit $627.',

Training Lab in 0ctober, function--word processing RIV ' DisplayWrite?2''1984 ITS Lab instructors --to the broader capabili- - a.c.,ca;.g p y gg,

have travelled to all five ties of micros. As they 1985TTC'DisplaywritedNRC Regional offices, as acquired more microcom- RI. -DisplayWrite51twell as to the Chattanooga puter workstations, re- RII 7d isplaywrit'il23D

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Technical Training Center gional personnel received g .ju 4 m gg433e

to present on-site train- training that introduced 1986 RIV 'Intio to"PCsMang. Figure 1-1 charts them to the spreadsheet, um#Dfor8Eovidesh4Dthe history of computer database, and telecommuni- wf;dg 4mnsg.33training in the Regions. cations software available 19h7jRIII2In'tht[PCs /

for their new equipment. ..g ijgfopigf,gge,pf(As Figure 1-1 indicates, In February, 1987, Norman NIIJDiihlsyWritM3)regions initially identi- Stanback trained 40 Region %MTPCADOSF#MM

; q Q t ntf6 d6714TD bfied a strong need for III employees in two ses- Ivord processing training sions of " Introduction to 0,et Q%trd4 oIDMSMt(1984-1985). The package End-User Computing at NRC "URi1YIddr6YtCPCWthen available to end- for Novices". Mr. Stan- + 7. Ep ffpygjiicdtidN

> ;RE. d iiipisyWEfte 3husers was DisplayWrite 2. back reported only one DArenda Holladay, an ITS problem: "I couldn't get

+ Md; W C MiIsti M M@3hixA T PC DOS *M #hiLab instructor who con- my students to take a

ducted several of these lunch break.!"

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tor presented "Introduc- Tentative plans for 1988 staff will continue to'

tion to DisplayWrite 3" to call for conducting SINET identify training needsan entirely different aud- training twice in each and present them to the

) ,. ience of 20 from the Divi- region in 1988 (see "SINET ITS Training I.aboratory'

sion of Reactor Safety. U date" Page 9). This Project Manager, BanksPScheduling these two effort will be the first Mitchum, OP/TBEA, forclasses together took full time that training on a evaluation and authoriza-

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advantage of both the on- mainframe database access- tion of additional train-{isite instructor and the ible via microcomputers ing. For more informa-

training room specially has been offered in the tion, contact Mr. Mitchumset aside at Region II Regions. The Regional on extension 2-7934. E

| Headquarters.

Another instance of cus-tomizing end-user training [ d hkhto the audience cccurred $ 7 #

%,*kin August, when Mr. Qg

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Richard Royer trained 19 4 / --

senior staff members from iM Ithe Region II Office in- M ,

cluding the Regional Ad- '*4.,

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minis t ra t or , Dr. J. j

Nelson Grace. Mr. Royer i; dtailored the presentation: . ;r

to accommodate the execu- y >tives' busy schedules; 3classes were held in the - d ]mornings only. 2 .%n q--,--

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Eme e y Prepa ed- NRC's 1000th PC INSTALLEDness exercise. The exer-cise objectives were Gregory Cwalina, Chief of the Performance Evaluationfinely honed. At the end

Branch of the Division of Licensee Performance andof training, participantshad to produce Status Sum- Quality Evaluation (LPEB), is shown with his newly

installed PC, the 1000th PC installed at NRC. Withmary reports via Display-him are Drew Persinko (left) and Dick Becker (seat-Write 3, convert them to ed). Mr. Cwalina's branch evaluates licensee per-ASCII format, and then formance and synthesizes that information for useupload them to an elec-during Senior Management Review meetings and fortronic mail (E-mail) sys- coordination of the SALP program. 3

tem via Crosstalk. Toclarify the instructors'

The Branch will use the new PC to create documents,understanding of these and more significantly, to access the on-line search- ,

exercise objectives, Mr. ing and ad hoc reporting capabilities of SINET. AsJoe Himes of the NRC Oper- Greg Cwalina notes, "I can't think of a data base inations Center briefed ITS SINET that LPEB won't use!"Lab instructors on E-mailprocedures and conducted a Congratulations to LPEB and the NRC on the instal-tour of the NRC Operations lation of its 1000th PC!Center. |

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display the parameters andthe number of records(Count) located on the DCSSUBJECT SEARCH developed. This vocabu- for each.

lary reflects the entireOne question we have nf t er. scope of NRC licensing,heard during DCS user regulatory, and research e Combining the data ele-training sessions is: "Is and developerat programs, ments to narrow thethere a y,,u_b,iec_t; search?" as well as other official search. Here the user hasOur response has always agency actions. The voca- first requested a searchhad to be a shake of the bulary will be updated on title and docket byhead and a comment to the regularly, with additions entering "An(d) 1 2" whereeffect that it vould cer- or deletions as needed. An=And (search twn ele-

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tainly te nice if we had Suggestions for candiJate ments at once), on thethat opt 4n. key terms from NRC staff command line. This tellsare encouraged. the system to search both

Lines 1 and 2. The resultThose days are over! As is displayed on Line Aof early December,1987, The figure shows the sub- under Selected Operations.DCS users have been able jeet search screen and the We see that 392 recordsto search for documents on operations available to relating to piping at Co-DCS using keywords, phras- the user in the earlies. manche Peet I have beenes and subje.: terms. version of subject searca. found.

j As improvements are made'

to the subject search mo-| ""he Title / Description dule, revisions to the e Finally, addingfield of over 1.6 million main screen will be made. Terao,D." to the title /i DCS records was systemati- In the example, the user docket search. On thees11y reviewed for subject wishes to find all DCS command line the user will

terms and phrases. As a records authored by D. enter "An(d) A_3," 4*Lineresult, a comprehensive Terno that pertain to pip- A containing the ',itle/_

controlled vocabularv of ing issues at Comanche docket combin.: Lion, andnuclear industry-related Peak, Unit 1 (Docket 50- 3=Line 3, which containsand NRC-wide terms was a45). This search in- the "Terso,D." search.

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* ina B, whsre va see that- reports and'related docu- distributed interns 11y to| ..

49 records.have been lo- mentation; environmental NRC staff members and con-.cated. To view these re- analyses; NRC and external tractors performing workcords, the user enters technical reports; topical for the NRC. Internal,

E ."V(iew),,B" on the command reports; N2C/ licensee no- distribution usually in-line. The records will tificatinus; and legal volves codes that are notthen be displayed one- documents. Abstracts will yet fully developed andby-one. be variable in length, tested. This provides the

averaging about 150 words, opportunity to test theand will be fully indexed validity of the code

Numerous search combina- and keyworded for subject before it is sharedtions can be generated searching. publicly.i

|. from the subject search'

functions. Public distribution of.More information on theDate ranges and multiple abstracting program will codes to requestors such

as vendors, licensees,terms can be used. Up to be provided in later ts-

universities or foreign j,8 data elements and 10 sues of the ITS NEWS. u governments is a coopera-combinations can be tive effort of the NRC.searched in one session. program offices and the

SCIENTIFIC COMPUTER office of AdministrationCODE DISTRIBUTIONA S M eet Search Training and Resource Management.and User Guide is avail- '' '' '" " *# "* IPatricia Bellable to NRC personnel, performed by an outsideTraining sessions in sub-ject search and regulcr Scientific or analytical contractor, National. - -

DCS searching are conduct- computer codes are devel- Energy Software Center(NESC) or Radiation

ed every second Wednesday. oped to model complex pro-cesses associated with the ShieldinB InformationCall Darl* H"I" ' " *"

eron 2-9074, to sign up. operation of reactors and Center (RSIC). Ad hoc.

The DCS staff will also nuclear waste repositories distribution of computer,

d" * d' *' dual for siting analyses, u ci- codes by NRC staff or con-. .*

group training setsions at dent analyses, and oober tractor personnel is dis-

evaluations. couraged'NRC sites upon request.

Codes should be documented. . . .

Policy governing scienti- before distribution soDCS Abstracts fic codc distribution is that they can be mainteir.-

described in Attacharat 1 ed and used successfully.Current plans call for the to Bulletin 0904-3 8 Accurate e,un c tion isDCS staff to begin ab- "Developmen t , St. omit tal * particularly important forstracting selected NRC Distribution and Documen- codes and their resultsdocuments. These ab- tation Requirements for that may be at iss'oe instracts will provide more Machine-Readable Contract hearings and other licens-complete descriptions of Deliverables", ing proceedings.documents .and also pro-

ne NRC program oMees A code and its documenta-t ba e or e ub' t(RES, NRR and NMSS) de- tion should also be made

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search function. The uver ,

is able to exercise more vel p, modify and maintain available publicly on a

discretion when deciding codes to meet their spect- timely basis. Program

whe't h er to view an actual fic program needs. Con- offices are responsibletractor services are used for maintaining records ofdocument. x r code development when revisions or replacementsa program office deter- for any codes used in the

Categories of documents mines that in-house capa- licensing or regulatorythat the DCS plans ts ab- bility is not available. process.

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! The progr m offices re- SINET UPDATE A schedule is being devel-'

sponsiblo for the dcvelop- oped for SINET courses toment of the codes must Fran Goldberg be given by the ITS atwork closely with the headquarters in the nextDivision of Publications few m oths. Additional

th the e mpletion ofServices regarding formal courses will be given atPhase I of SINET, OP anddocumentation which is Headquarters throughout

IRM will be offeringdone through NUREGS, the year. Two courses aret M ning th mugh the ITSICREG/CRs or Regulatory planned fo? each Regionalg g g" '' office between now and theand program support staff

end of the year. Te.ns-. who would like to access tive plans call for oneARM will provide a check- the new UNIT and EVENT

i list of items that are c urse t be taught in thedatabases. ,

needed for the submittal Regions each month begin-'

of a code to a distribu- ning with Region I.

tion center to ensure that The first SINET training

all externally distributed course has a somewhatcodes are documented pro- formidable title " Intro- SINET TECHNICALperly &nd that all re- duction to Database,

COORDINATORSquirements of the NESC SINET, IDMS/R Concepts,coutract are met. and OnLine Query" (" Intr

NRR: Faith Brennemanto SINET for short)., 492-9521

The Information Technology This 3 day course starts AEOD: Stuart Rubin *Services Branch (ITSB) with an overview of the 492-0091helps NRC employees to basics of database pro- NMSS: Claudia Seeligdefine all anticipated cessing and how it differs 427-4072deliverables and to ensure from the conventional file RES: Gerald Tomlinthat Attachment 1 of processing environment. 443-7651Manual Chapter 0904-3 is Next participants receive RI: Kenneth Murphy Jr.appended to official con. detailed information on 488-1210tracts. ITSE also assists the structure and content RII: Kerry Landisin preparing NESC code of the SINET UNIT and 2 W 509submittal packages. EVENT databases. The last RIII: Ed 3chweibinz

two days of the course 388-5542,

Patricia Bell, ITSB, man- focus on searching the RIV: Dorwin Hunterages the NESC contract and data base and producing 728-8103is NRC's NESC Installation reports using Cullinet's RV: Kathleen HamillRepresentative. NRC staff OaLine Query s)ftware. 463-3743

The software ellows theand contractor personnelcan obtain codes for in- user to query the database * AEOD staff membersternal use from the NESC and produce fc matted re- should call theirlibrary by requesting them ports by selec ting data training coordinator,

from Mrs. Bell et exten- elements and report op- Cherie Siegel 492-sion 2-3491. tions from meaus. 4624.

ITSB will be happy to as- The " Intro to SINET"sist you in reviewing code course uses a combination For additional informationdevelopment projects or of lecture and hands-on on the course content, as

provisions of Manual exercises with the SINET well as schedules andChapter 0904-3 to ensure production database ac- sign-up information forthat codes developed for cessed by PCs communicat- upcoming SINET coursesthe NRC can be readily ing with the Department of contact your Office orimplemented and used on Justice computer facility. Regional SIhET TechnicalNRC-accessible computer Participants will receive Coordinator (see boxfacilities or transferred full instruction on how o below) or John Sullivan,

to other data processing access SINET from their IRM Data Administrationsites. E own PCs. Branch, 492-7979. E

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- Al Serkiz iMEETINGS " ^I t?P cs. Volunteersand visitors are always.

1:30 prn, Tra. .ining Lab welcome.The purpose of the NRCdBASE III User Group is toassiet in the utilization dBASE: First Tuedayof dBASE III and dBASE III each month PC FORTRAN User GroupPlus through the sharingof programming techniques , Al: Last Tuesday Harold VanderMolenprograms and interactive Odd # Monthsmember involvement.

FORTRAN: Last Tuesdav The October meeting of the.

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The group is continuing Even # Months PC FORTRAN User Group fea-discussions in two major tured a presentation and

areas. The first b'eing discussion of new, advanc-whether distribution of ed FORTRAN compilers for

The November meeting had PCs, led by John Voglevede-

dBASE compilers , whichEERNIE HILLMAN from R-Iprovide a means to resist and based on his articleintroduce the Inspection in the June issue of theprogram tinkering and may Program Information Man- FC Tech Journal. The ca-also improve program run- agement System (IPIMS). pabilities of these com-ning time, is warrented.This system is written in pilers var greatl and noThe second area is con- dBASE III a d does some single compiler manages tocerned with the selection - -

prioritization of inspec- simultaneously be fast,of programmable editors tion resources using nu- sophisticated and easy tosuchasERIEFandVEDII merical techniques, use. The choice of thewhich are currently being Bernie suggested the AIUG best compiler remains de-evaluated by several dBASE take on, as a project, the pendent upon the programUser Group Members. Trial adding of a small expert one wishes to compile.packages are available for system in the area of theloan for those who want to Regional Inspection Prior-try out these editors. ity Program. The December meeting fea-

tured a videotape presen-If you have a need for tation of the characteris-" local" dBASE III program- Bernie also introduced tics and its capabilitiesming help, or need infor- BRENT DIXON of INEL who of the new CRAY machinemation concerning the pub- demonstrated an internal available through INEL.lic domain programs lib- research project on inter- Although more and more userary, contact Carrie activt risk projection, is being made of the smallWilliams (Ext. 24472) or The program uses AI tech- personal machines, it ieAl Serkiz (Ext. 23555). niques in its data repre- evident that large main-

sentation , "in-line" ex- frame technology is verypert systems, and advan ud much on the advance also.

Al User Group graphics- oriented userinterface and runs on a The purpose of the FORTRANXEROX 1186 The projectBill Kennedy User Group is to sharedemonstrated significant ideas and discuss prob-

The AI Users Group meeting abilities m editing /vork-lems regarding PC FORTRAN,

in September featured SY ing with a living PRAas well as the entire

WEISS describing his ex- and in graphically por-spectrum of scientific and

perience/ observations at traying the effects of technical uses of personalthe EPRI Seminar on Expert specific equipment fail- computers. Our membershipSystems Applications in ures or unavailability, varies from the novice toPower Plants last May in the expert. For moreBoston. Thirteen papers The AIUG will continue to information regarding the(about 30%) were presented provide a vehicle for the group, contact Harold Vap-by utilities on projects. exchange of experiences derMolen on X27389. E

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Persons traveling by car files. USE command is issued forcan tell by route's.igns if the primary (.DBF) file,they are traveling on an On fixed disk machines, a dBASE checks for the auxi-interstate, and *y warning subdirectory should be liary (.DBT) file if memosigns if driving may be created on the hard disk fields are used. If dBASEtricky. Road signs are to act as an intermediate cannot find the memo file,also helpful when using a storage area for the data the primary file cannot bemicrocomputer, particular- to be transferred. The opened and the database

ly with the many software- COPY command can be used can no longer be used.packages and machine envi- to move the data to this Memo fields should not beronments available at the subdirectory. The data used when defining a data-NRC. Here are some of the can then be copied from base. Alternatives, suchroad signs that you may the subdirectory to the as the use of long, cht.r-

encounter: terget floppy disk using a acter fields or a second,second COPY command. related (.DBF) file, can

WARNING: DISKCOPY be used.CAUTION : BACKUP / RESTORE

The diskcopy command does CAUTION: DBASE BROWSEa FORMAT, which erases The BACKUP and RESTOREeverything on the target commands may not work with Editing under BROWSE indisk, then performs a COPY commercial software. Use dBASE III can result inof all information on the of these commands may corruption of files. Thesource disk and moves it alter copy protection BROWSE command should onlyto the target disk. In schemes and render vendor be used to examine theversions 2.0 and 2.1 of software unusable. The database and not to changeDOS, the target drive may BACKUP and RESTORE com- it. To modify databasebe a fixed disk. If not mands should only be em- files, quit BROWSE and usespecified, the target ployed with user files. the EDIT command. '

drive may default to thefixed disk and software or STOP: CONFIG.DB Watch for, and follow thedata on this drine may be microcomputer road signslost. Use of CONFIG.DB files and you can enjoy a safe

will alter the configura- aad pleasant trip. ForIt is safer to format a tion of a machine for the further information anddiskette using the FORMAT dBASE III program. CON- advisories contact thecommand directly. On lual FIC.DB files should not be Support Center at 492-floppy machines, the COPY installed on agency compu- 4160. Ei

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This section of the news- mode with the SERVER com- print it on the 5520 let-letter provides tips and mand, it would wait for- ter quality printer. Totechnical information of ever for commands from the do this, however, it isinterest to NRC micro- and PC because the normal TSO important to create andmainframe computer users. logoff interval did not save the document in prim-If you have any questions apply. Now, after two ary format. This format isregarding " Tech Notes" or hours in server mode with the default forest in-if you wish to contribute no commands from the PC, stalled by IRM on youran item, contact the ITS TSO Kermit will terminate. DisplayWrite software;Support Center, 492-4160. margins are set to 12 and

e Line Wrapping 90, and pitch is set to 12characters per inch.

PERSONAL COMPUTERS The treatment of text filelines that exceed the max-

o TSO Kermit Updated imum line length has been Before attempting to passchanged. Formerly such the document to tl.e 5520

The TSO Kermit program has lines were truncated. Now to store and print orbeen updated to correct a the excess characters will simply to print, the usernumber of problems. Users be used to create another must convert the documentneed not obtain a new PC line in the dataset. This to Revisable Form TextKermit diskette because means that KERMIT can now (RFT). This is done with-the fixes were incorpo- upload random access text in the DisplayWrite soft-rated on the mainframe files. Because such filca ware by selecting the Doc-(TS0) side. The more im- often do not contain a ument Utilities option on ;portant fixes are describ- carriage return and line the Main Task Selection '

ed below. feed as do normal text Menu and the Convert op-files, the proper proce- tion on the Utilities

BYE and LOGOUT Commands dure is to upload to a menu. The user will benon-edit format dataset , prompted to provide the jThe MS-DOS Kermit BYE and setting LRECL to the name of the document to be i

LOGOUT commands now oper- length of the records in converted, and the nameate properly with TSO the file on the PC. the document will be call-KERMIT. Both commands ed after it is converted.exit from TSO Kermit sud For more information, re- These names may be thelog off TSO. In addition, fer to NIH INTERFACE num- same except for the exten- !

the BYE command exits from ber 139, available at the sions. The exteneion for I

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sion of the converted doc-Server Timeout Users who have access to a ument will be RFT if the

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right margin set beyond document to the machine80.) Single or double equipped with DisplayWrite,

spacing is recommended for 3 and convert the documente Primary and Alternate a document created with from .RFT format to .TXT

Document Formate for the alternate format be- format.DISPLAYWRITE cause of printer compati-

bility.The user may also save the

liisplayWrite has two for- document on the Display-mat options set up by IRM. Write 4 machine in ASCIIThe default format (pri- format to transport it to, g,yg,g 3,gy,,,mary / 1s set to be compat- the D18PlayWrite 3 ma-DISPIAYWRITE 3 andible with the 5520 for hine. When starting upDISPLAYWRITE 4easy transfer of docu- DisplayWrite 3, the userments. The left margin is must create a dummy docu-set at 12 and the right Several versions of the ment and issue a CET in-margin is set at 90. The IBM DisplayWrite software struction to get the ASCIIpitch is set at 12. The are in use and supported file into this dummy docu-first typing line is set at NRC, the latest of m(ut. Because this methodat 7, and the last typing which is DisplayWrite 4 will strip format controlline is 60. With this If a document created characters, it is recom-document format, single or using DisplayWrite 3 is mended that the firstdouble spacing should be revis er' ming DisplayWrite method (DOC to RFT to TXT)used to ensure compati- 4, the DisplayWrite soft- be used.bility with the IBM 5520. ware will automatically

convert the document toThe second format option DisplayWrite 4 fomat and

e CROSSTALK Profilesis the alternate format, rename the document with a,

which is used only if the . DOC extension. While the. .

vendor included this fea- Crosstalk profiles aredocument is not to be

ture to meet the market defined to access main--transferred to the IBM5520. The settings in the demand for upward compati- frames and other PCs with-

alternate fomat are as bility, it may cause pro- in the agency's computerblems in a mixed ,ersion env{ronment. Users are ;follows: the Icft marginenvironment like ors. reminded to select the

is set at 15, the right appropriate profile formargin is set at 76, the communication with thefirst typing line is 7, If the document must be target machine (INEL,

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communications with a ma- this manipulation, the should specify CY73 aschine other than that for terminal idle time before destination during loginwhich it was defined will automatic logoff has been questions. To avoid los-result in garbled and un- extended to two (2) hours. ing printout, be sure topredictable communica- use the following routingtions. The ITS Support Users are cautioned that parameters for the Phil-Certer will assist users (1) charges are accrued lips Building printer:in defining a new profile during all connected timeor_ provide the name and a and (2) care should be ROUTE, filename DC=PR,copy of a profile that is taken to logoff when ac- UN=NRC,UJN=youridapplicable to th user's cess to the mainframe isneeds. Please call 492- no longer needed.'4160 for assistance. e CRAY Supercomputer

e Release Reel Tapes NowProfiles contain communi- The CRAY information videocations parameters that The DCRT/NIH has converted is available for viewingare unique to connecting to the IBM 3480 cartridge by appointment in ITSB.and talking with the tar- tape, but they continue to CRAY training will be of-get computer. Just as the Provide reel tapes for two fered on an as-neededQueen would have diffi- Purposes: (1) compati- basis by ITSB staff mem--culty understanding Cock- bility with plotters and bers who attended CRAYney, so the Data Ceneral microfiche equipment and training at INEL in Decem-would have difficulty (2) data transport to and ber. ITSB can processunderstanding the language from other computer in- CRAY access for presentused for the IBM NIH sta11ations that do not CYBER users quickly. ITSBsystes. have 3480 cartridge tape also can provide informa-

capability. An audit in- tion on criterin fordicates an increase in the choosing FORTRAN programs

MAINFRAME COMPUTERS number of reel tapes. to convert to the CRAYBecause the 3480 cartridge eschine. Call ITSB, ex-tape is very reliable, tension 2 3490 or 2-3491holds more data, and re- for an appointment or in-

NIH quires less storage space, formatioo. ethe DCRT asks users to

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Increased on NIH WYLBUR change them for cartridgeand TSO tapes, if possible.

The NIH/DCRT has been ex-periet.cing an increase in

INELthe use of PCs connectingwith the IBM mainframe.In recognition of the need e Destination Parametersto download mainframe dataand manipulate it at the One CYBER 176 mainframePC, and a need to read- was removed from servicedress the mainframe after during the summer. Users

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