ML20245E708
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| Issue date: | 02/01/1987 |
| From: | NRC OFFICE OF INFORMATION RESOURCES MANAGEMENT (IRM) |
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| NUREG-BR-0056, NUREG-BR-0056-V03-N1, NUREG-BR-56, NUREG-BR-56-V3-N1, NUDOCS 8908110339 | |
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'q SIMS CLOSES THE GAPS IN SAFETY ISSUES MANAGEMENT!
muck Fitzgerald others. Between 185 and easy to see h w assessing 300 of the 464 issues are the overall p m p to-In recent months, Gair-applicable to each of the wards resolving these is-ran Zech has placed in-100 nuclear power plant sues was a difficult task.
creasing e:phasis on the units, which translates to monitoring of nuclear a total of over 24,000 With the development of pwer plant safety by us-issues at the unit level, SIMS, this is no longer ing, in a more integrated of which apprcxirately the case. Now, for the fashion, the information 4000 re ain unresolved.
first time, the Agency has contained in Licensee Exa: ples of some of the a truly integrated system Event Reports, Abnorral more critical safety is-Occurrence Reports, and sues included areng the Inspection Reports, as 464 are diesel generator THE ISSUE AT HAND well as information relat-failure, station blackout, ing to the resolution of and the " decay heat renov-52c:
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w ennt e ntret syst o 2
plant, and other indica-tors of plant performance.
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tracking all of this In the area of generic inferration was previously at twa 5
issues, a new automated performed on a nu=ber of e scagne, um p,<merf tool, the Safety Issues manual and autcrated sys-tc tra Pex ue 5
Management System, or ters, each developed cy c:: muum ca:c.e.ar 6
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that provides a single cycle. Plant-specific sourco of validated, reli-issues were also included able information on all of in SEG to provide a cm-these activities. SDG ITS NEWS Credits prehensive view of a given p
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The ITS NEWS is a quarterly ration regardiIKJ generic publication providing information
' i"terest users of computer During the next 15 issues during all handling technology at the NRC. It is phases of an issue issue produced by the staff of the NRC months, IM analysts worked identification aM appro-Inf unamn Technology Sennces with representatives from Support Center and Training val; examination aM tech-Laboratory in conjunct.on with the IN, IE, IMS, E, m-nical resolution; irposi-NRC$QMgDTS v
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, n ng tion of requirements on EDO and DEDROGR staff to licensees; implementation You' amcies. mas. casmas determine the system re-ano comments are welcomed.
of requirements by 11cen-Please forward them to the ITS QUifeDents. A detailed sees; and finally, veri-Sta" bv requirements dccument was fication by imC, if re-Phone: 492-4160 approved by all parties in Mati r in Person:
TWomber,1985 and SDG.
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P 808 Phdhos Bidg' was operational by April, The value of SHG as a ITS Support Center 1986*
ranagement tool was re-cently demonstrated at the Karen vanDuser.
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senior ranagement, includ-S gs Branch SEG was developed using p
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PfrJ onal Administrators c,,,ia' p,'uT,*nSe or Management System software which took place in Octo-comgu r Systgms Analyst paChage. It operates at ber in Region V.
At this the ND-I Canputer Center in ITS NEWS mneting, reports generated Bethe, 10.
by SHG were used together with IERs, Abnorral Occur-ITS Training Laboratory rence Reports, and Inspec-SMS mS &w@M msg x,,ny 3,,,,,n, o;,,,,,,
tion Reports as key tools u,chaei canves. Instructor the RAM /S // fourth in reviewing the agency's
^7gg,8 Hl,78vg,ns5l,uctor generaf/on Datr Base no progress in addressing Ndton Nogueira, managemen SyS em SOff-safety issues. After the Adm'n'8"atin Assistant Norman Stanback, instructor mig MEggOg*
meeting, Gairran ZeCh Douptas Vickery requested a personal g8 g'gt
y S briefing on the SDG and regaested additional sum-SEG deals with data aM rary type information.
Employee Development p m at M M els; and Training Staff Issue level arri Plant The original irpetus for level. Issue level data p,,,,,,a n arnbun.
SEG development came from Senior Program Analyst and processes describe the the EED's office in Sep-issue, the resolution, the Note: The Training Laboratory tencer, 1934, when DM
<s ooerated by the USDA Graduate requirements and the (then FM) was as):ed to Schooi under a contract to pro-track 1rxJ of milestones as develop an agency-wide,
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well as the status associ-p cradle-to-grave system for nicai gwdance is provided by ated with the issue.
trackirrJ/managirx3 generic Plant level data and pro-issues for power reactors.
cesses are used to iden-Graphics The EDO's nemo required tify aM track milestones that the new system even-Dem,n '"$'o'n* s"'decwn along with the status of c
i tually be expanded to in-Photography Dan Dehn the issue as it is iEpos-clude all NRC-licensed ed, implemented and veri-activities such as trans-fied at each affected portation, raterials, plant.
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It with its 1.4 million re-is our hope that this move cords, right to your desk.
was developed in 1978 by M Corporation to run on will bring our user ser-a 16 bit Data General vices updates to a broader Services provided by the C330. Four years later readership. The user DCS include:
system configuration was training functions of the expanded by Planning Re-old newsletter will be
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search. After selecting G G,R g the eesired title, you can look for nore informa-TECHNOLOGY view the purchase infoma-tion about NRC Optical tion in any of three for-Disk applications in a mats. You may choose to future issue. M Eileen Chen print or save this infor-mation on disk.
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library in Febraary. This is aavertised as haviry product provides instan-The system also provides performance that is far taneous search capability a sirpler search mechanism superior to any other to over 750,000 titles.
terred BROWSE for the existirg software packa novice user which utilizes After purchase however, Now, when doing a menus similar to those of Se pmdd, vendor, an search, instead of thumb-IDIUS and dBASE III Plus.
brochure claims disapper ing through the author BROWSE allows the user to volume, the title volume scan through different and the subject volume as irdexes in a variety of CURSOR: A faintly flickr in the printed product, forrats. Regardless of ing symbol on a CRT the user will key in a the search rethcx1 used, screen, used to test th(
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the operator, and indi-cambining key words or any cating where the next combination of sixteen The large multi-volume keyed character will be access points.
publication which ccx:upies rejected.
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CORPORATE DATA capability to facilitate When ycu create a docu-NETWORK UPDATE quick simultanems a - a ment, DisplayWrite creates by rultiple users.
a temporary file with the John Sullivan extender.RES.
When the One of the development du,mit is properly saved On r. M =r 18, 1986, techniques that will be the.RES file is deleted.
the Cai systems develop-used on cui projects is Hwever, if the doceaent ment contract was awarded prototyping. In proto-is not saved properly, the to System Automation Corp.
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.RES file remains on the (SAC). We period of the built to help define re-disk and you'll be unable contract is three years quire ents before the de-to use the document.
with options for two one-tailed design phase.
Displa)Mrite 2/3 does not year extensions. SAC and IDE/R has several campo-create backups of your two subcontractors, CAP nents that facilitate pro-work automatically; you i(
GD(INI AMERICA, aM Sys-totyping, including an always work with your tems Research aM Applica-application generator original document. Since tions Corp., will work which enables us to de-there's no backup, under a series of task velop applications without your only hope is to cor-orders to facilitate con-writing camputer programs.
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and oversight by IRM.
capabilities of these cam-
" Performance Indicat-ponents, a series of ors," a datahwe/appli-screens can be defined at he Recovery facility is cation to monitor critical the terninal to investi-amamad through the Docu-safety paraneters of cam-gate regairements for re-ment Utilities choice on mercial nuclear power ports, database updates the Main Task Selection plants, has been selected and interactions of a pro-Menu. Enter the name of as the first Cai develop-totype application with the file or files you wish ment project. Cai devel-existing applications.
to recover. Global opnent will be done on characters are permitted Callinet's datahwa m n-should you have a group of agement system, Ins /R, a DISPLAYWRITE files to recover.
copy of which the NRC has DOCUMENT RECOVERY Recovery closes the docu-installed at the Depart-TO THE RESCUE m nt pr p rly by placing cent of Justice camputer the essential end of file timesharing facility in If you use DisplayWrite code in the docunent and Dallas, Texas.
2/3 you my have received deleting the.RES file.
the message " File Already You cannot recover a docu-he primry feature of a In Use."
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.RES file. D e code indi-1 tem (DHG) such as InE/R stien an error in saving cating the end of the is that all data elenents has occurred.
Improper document won't be placed can be located in a single savirg can occur due to a in the proper position and database that is used by pwer outage, a diskette you'll still be unable to numerous "systers" and errer or renoving the disk use the document.
applications. A min from the disk drive l
threat to data integrity without first pressirg the associated with the tradi-F2 key to initiate a save.
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data can be viewed as a copy of a docu ent with a Recovery is not fool 1 gical and organized bad copy. Powering down may N p~o same re-keyirg prw f s body. Another important or renoving the disk will m-omag.E advantage of IDG/R is its not solve this problem.
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1 letter ard will be working with the trainirg center TRAINING on curriculum development.
Jim left the lac for a REMINDERS position in the private sector where he will be working with Artificial 5520 and Displaywriter self paced Intellig mce systems.
On November 10 1986 courses on KEY simulators are Kathy Beckmn r41accinon available at the ITS Training Lab.
nacnad as Trainirg nanager at the ITS Lab. As 11al-See your Tra..ining Coord.inator son between lac as the Graduate School, USDA, for details.
Kathy is respons M e for overseeing the day-to-day operations of the Training
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Fran led the development ing as well as several of the Infomation Tech-years in adult education nolcgy Services Support classrooms to her new po-Center in cooperation with sition. Her consulting Peter J. Gold an and his experience rarges from E playee Development and ranaging a soft.are docu-Training Staff. She was a Gerald Paulsen rajor factor in intrcduc-assignments with USDA, U.S. Amy personnel system g and p h y d e D. tension Service, Oregon to designing corputer h'end-user ccqxIting con-State University and the assisted instn:ction soft-cept" at the 12C and in Boeing Ccqnny. He re-ware for FCs. She has providing training to end-places Jim Smith as D:ecu-also taught "Corputer Con-tive Editor of this news-ccpts" classes to commun-g s
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1:30 pm, Training Lab about the development of a series of expert systers dBASE:
First Tuesday called the Reactor Safety each month Assessment System (RSAS).
Iast November, at their A1:
Last Tuesday fifth bimonthly gathering, Odd # Months merbers viewed a demon-stration of one nearly l
FORTRAN: Last Tuesday ccmpleted prag m given by
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levels of dBASE III ard III Plus users at the 1
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RSAS runs on a Xerox
- IBIUS 2.0 and dBASE III Plus. Also, all course 1186 AI workstation, the At the Wehr 1986 handouts at the lab are first of its kind at IRC.
meeting Garrie Williams, The system is capable of currently beig redesigned one of the group's co-storing human expertise tc incl'.1de more graphics coordinators, unveiled the regarding nuclear reactor plus ar " action box" for-dBASE III User Group dynamics ard applying this mat to describe each user Library program which is expertise quite spacific-action while simultaneous-ncn available. This pro-ally to a particular ccm-ly exp hinig its signif1-gram, searchable via key-nercial reactor. When cance.
words, places at members' camoleted, RSAS will be At the imC's request, fingertips complete dBASE able to serve as an expert the ITS Iab staff has de-III pr g rams plus pro-advisor to assist the veloped a new course, gra= ting hints condensed agency's huran experts
" Introduction to SIMS," to from TECH IKJfES and other during a reactor incident.
train users of the Safety publications. Source Issues Managenent System.
disks will be available at (see lead article, this monthly meetings for copy-Jim Smith, the group's issa) 'Ihe first presenta-ing purposes.
organizer ard forner tlon of the course was
'Ihe thrust of the next chairperr.cn who is depart-given on January 28.
several reetings will be im the IRC, has been re-to provide assistance to placed by Bill Keanedy, new and intermediate IER. His extension is dBASE Ill USER GROUP users. Please contact 24578. He will be assist-
'Ihe pu.p of the NRC either Al Serkiz on X27487 ed by: John Hickman, IE, dBASE III User Group is to or Garrie Williams on X24155; Ias Iancaster, share ideas and pr gram-X24470 if you have ques-RES, X37760; and Iance
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nine staMard reports and me PC ICRTPAN User
'Ihe design of SHG was receive a hardcopy print-Group was started at the based on drawing data from out of the data. SES request of a majority of existing ccmputer syste:ns also has five staMard users present at a PC IDR-and raking it available in queries which produce re-TRAN Workshop given by ITS integrated fom.
Data not sults imediately on the in August. S e purpose of available in any other semen.
the group is to learn from auto ated system, such as More experienced SEE a presentation or demon-issue data and some plant users can create and for-stration, share ideas and data, is entered and up-mat their own reports or discuss problems that dated direc' y through queries via the PAMIS II arise in tue u!E or the SDG data entry menus.
data manipulation tool NRC supported software.
Most plant level data and called e m. SUG At present, that package basic facility information also has an Lglish Ian-is IBM FORIRAN 2.0.
was available in existig guage query capability systers. Rather than re-called PAMIS DiGLISH which ne current mallig list entering this data, SDE accepts cands in nomal contains 25 names. Would files are updated from the English.
you like to became a mem-oxisting systens via an ber aM receive cur rail-automated transfer pro-At this time SDS is ings? Call Harold VaMer-
- cess, operated by IRM staff' molen, the group's new only. However, user chairperson, on X27389 for more information.
~USING SDS training for data entry Srs was designed to be and reports / queries has At the first meeting in
" user friendly." It is an been developed by the ITS Octobe.r, the members en-en-line, menu driven sys-and mmbem of the NRC jcyed an interestig pm-tem, readily accessible GTS staff and ISB/W sentation by Kaz Campe, from any NRC cc puter ter-IRM and is now avai10ble
" Writing Data from BASIC minal or personal computer at the Training lab.
Po-l to Use in FORTRAN on the with cu..adnications capa-tential users will need an IC". John Vogelvede gave bility. Once the user is account at NIH, and a ter-minal r PC with u....-ani-a report on the evaluation loaged onto SIMS, all of other IDRTRAN packages.
system functions are per-cations capability.
We results of these eval-formed through menu Present Status - Future uations will assist NRC in selection screens.
Re-Plans choosing a package which ports are printed at will serve the IDRIFAN rem te printers which are Some short tem SDS plans user community more ef-capable of handling the call for:
fectively.
large volume of lines.
- ah. rdating RGS needs Srall reports of a few in tracPing issues for me December meet 1N pages can be directed to a fuel cycle plants; featunxi Fran Goldber9,
local personal computer speaking on " Documentation for printing if desired.
- adding data to SUG for and IRM PC Policy". Als Reports can also be down-power reactors not yet at this meeting new off1-loaded to personal cam-licensed; cars were elected. gtum puters and saved as files meeting topics were dis-for further local process-
- adding all generic re-i cussed: demo of statisti-quiremnt sources to cal routine packages; hcw SIMS, such as bulletins, 9"**"** '*" "^" #
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IDIUS graph. Readers' FROM SIMS quest' ns or suggestions IS EASY If you would like to use are welcomed. Call Harold SDG and/or learn more Vandemolen, X27389, or Getting inferration from about it - call Chuck John Voglewede, X74275.
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'Ihere are several easy minframe computer users, a new database and index-ways to change the disk If you have any questions ing does not. Sortirg is drive that dBASE III uses regarding the Tech Notes best defined as the ACIUAL to store information. 'Ihe or wish to centrib% an physical rearrangement of preferred method is to item for publication, con-the database into a new enter the command SET tact the ITS Support Cen-arri entirely separate DEFAULT 'IO X (X signifies ter on 492-4160.
file.
Indexing creates an the drive you wish to index to the file that use), e.g., SET DEFAULT 'ID makes the data appear as B to retrieve and store PERFONAL COMPUTERS if it has been physically files to the
'B' drive, rearranged by addressing Another option is to pre-S~
JCCK Kicks Back!
the data in the ortier face the filename with the specified sten the iJrlex drive letter each time you Users of Sidekick, which was built. However, OPen or use that file, is a FAM resident progra"t, creation of a new database e.g., USE B: OFFICES or may experience sporadic does not take place.
CREATE REPORT B:SU CARY.
hardware or software mal-hhen using the latter functions when trying to rethod, be sure to specify use the progran with same
'Ihere are two major advan-the drive each time you software packages, espec-tages to usirq DIDEX: 1) use the file!
ially DisplayWrite.
At-indexed files are only tempting to miify the lists of recorti pointers software is NOT the answer and therefore much smller to this pnoblem and is a than sorted files; aM 2)
UO Tabs arxl Indents violation of copyright and irriexes update themselves patent laws!
automatically when they
'Ihere has been same confu-are "USED" with the orig-sion on sten to use a tab To avoid the problem, re-inal datmhwe. Sorted and when to use an indent, move Sidekick fram nencry files will require resort-by pressing CIPDHOME+DID ing sten the original file A tab is created by together at the systems is charged.
pressmg the tab key (the pwwL (A> or C>) BEFORE key urrier the ESC key.)
loadiry a troublesane pro-
'Ihis pngraph was started gram. You can then use 5520 Procedures Available with a tab. When the text the other software package wraps around it returrs to arri, when you finish, re-Many users are having dif-the left margin.
load Sidekick.
ficulty uploading and downloading between the Indents are created by 5520 and DisplayWrite.
holdirq the CTRL key and INDEXH1G vs. SORTHIG
'Ihe ITS Support Center has pressing a T (CTRIrT).
':n dBASE III a set of precedures avail-
'Ihis paragraph starts able for these processes.
with an indent. When Many users of dBASE III Call X24160 to request a the text wraps around it have a difficult time dif-copy.
lines up in a column.
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the article on DISSPIA in such as used in quoted the Su:ner,1986 issue of material, use CTRL-Ts in-the ITS NEWS, p. 12).
stead of the TABS. A car-NPI Switchirq to More riage return ends the in-Efficient Block Sizes Tape Expiration Notices dent and returns the left from DIEL margin to its settirg.
Tape owners will receive a NIH is convertirg its list of their tapes each MAINFRAME COMPUTERS software to use block month whose retention sizes (BUGIZEs) that are period will expire in the as close to 11476 as pos-following month. The pur-NIH sible without exceeding pose of this notice is to it. 'Ihis will provide the help users avoid losing New Kermit Procedures most e!ficient storage of valuable data, since tapes Available data, yet raintain com-are automatically released patibility between the to the scratch pool upon The Kermit Protocol has various data storage expiration of their reten-replaced UCFTP for file devices. Programs that tion perieds, transfers between IBM PC's use larger block sizes ray and the IBM Mainframe at require an h in the NUI Caputer Center.
their region paraneter.
DIEI/ DOE Cost Gparison New procedures for using The WIBCR BUGIZE for the Kermit Protocol at NIH edit data sets is changing A recent be.Th ark com-are available from the ITS from 6356 to 11476. 'Ihe parison on job ets be-Support Center.
CARD forrat (LRECD=80) tween DEL and 9 other DOE blksize will change from systems shows that HIL 6320 to 11440. 'Ihe PRETT 7600 is 3.3 times as high Data Set Utilities forrat (IRECD=133) will as DiEL Cyber. 'Ihe IRIL Irproved also charge from 6251 to Cray system is the only 11438. Refer to the one stich had lower costs Many of the NDI Utilities articles in D7FERFACE is-than HIEL Cyber.
have been changed as of sues 127 ard 133, avail-Decerber 8,1986. 'Ihe able at the ITS Support BNL utilities have ! w n en-Center.
hanced with better capa-bilities ard are now Phase-out of CDC 7600 easier to use. One rajor Prcpesses, change is that all tape INEL utilities that use the Any afL user with files, UNIT name of TAPE now New DISSPIA Version tapes or card decks on the refer to the new 3480 CDC 7600, kho has IK7T re-cartridge instead of rag-DISSPIA Version 10.0 is plied to the ITS gaestion-netic tape. Users of now available on the DIEL naires of the past several these utilities shoul-1 CYBER. DISSPIA is an ex-months, should call Emily read the articles stuting cellent graphics tool Robinson on X28316 imme-on pg. 41 of D7FERFACE wnich is callable from diately.
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