==> DFS COMPONENT NAME:	OT

==> DFS COMPONENT RELEASE NUMBER: 2.4.1

==> DFS RELEASE TYPE: patch

==> DELIVERED BY: User Support Systems team ON: 05-Sep-02

==> MAIN REASON OF THE DELIVERY: 

    This is the OT 2.4.1 release.

==> DEADLINE FOR DELIVERY TO USERS: 
    
    15-Aug-2002

==> CONFIGURATION REQUIRED FOR INTEGRATION TESTS:

    Standard OT test plan.

==> LIST AND LOCATION OF SPECIFIC TEST DATA TO BE RETRIEVED AND USED FOR
INTEGRATION TESTS: 

    N/A

==> POINTS ALREADY CHECKED DURING UNIT TESTS: 

==> POINTS TO BE CAREFULLY CHECKED DURING INTEGRATION TESTS:

==> COMPLETE LIST OF ACTION ITEMS/PROBLEMS REPORTS ADDRESSED BY
    THIS RELEASE:


* [1851] Implemented exposure/execution time calculation for NACO.

* [1877] Added access to OB execution to the API for EVMs.

* [no SPR] Added support for parameter category "LGS".

* [no SPR] Removed support for SYBASE switch.


RELEASE NOTES FOR OT 2.4
****************************************

* [1720] Introduced new  ~/.ot.cf configuration file.

* [1377,1433] New OB export feature in QueueView and Repository
  Browser.

* Removed Dump button from main view. Export is only in the QueueView
  and RepositoryBrowser. 

* [1643,1102] Queue View browser configuration is now modifiable. 

* [0333,1768] It is now possible to save a browser configuration with a
  name, then recall it (new Options menu). A browser configuration
  includes all settings of the Column Selection, Row Selection, and
  Sorting areas.  Two new optional keywords were added to site.cf or
  ~/.ot.cf:
	REPOSITORYBROWSER.CONFIG.CONFIGMENU
		Where the Repository browser configuration 
		should be saved.
	QUEUEVIEW.CONFIG.CONFIGMENU "config/qv-helper.cf"
		Where the QueueView configuration 
		should be saved.
  If these keywords are not found, the Options menu is not available. 

* [1655] Added standard [clear] option to multiple selection pulldown
  menus in the Repository Browser, which deselects all currently
  selected options. The current Ctrl-Click functionality remains
  available, to select/deselect individual options.

* [1631,1426] Font size is now configurable. The optional keyword
  FONT.OFFSET.SIZE was added to site.cf or ~/.ot.cf. It can take an
  integer value between -4 and 4, to increase or decrease font sizes
  in P2PP and OT .

* [1710] Reintroduced OBS.EXECTIME keyword in OBD file to support
  FLAMES. 

* [1345] It is now possible to browse the repository by PI name.

* [1691] OT is now available for Linux (RedHat and SuSE); VisiPlots
  option is however not supported.
  The list of supported platforms now includes:

  ** Solaris 2.6 and 2.8
  ** HP-UX 11.0 
  ** RedHat Linux 7.1 and 7.2
  ** SuSE Linux 6.4 and 7.3 

  In all cases but SuSE Linux 7.3 the distributed platform-specific
  JRE (1.1.8) should be installed
  For SuSE Linux 7.3 one should use the system installed version
  instead.

* [1721] Added progress bar for VisiPlots.

* [1760] Queues and status values: can not Queue an OB with status "D"
  or "-"; changing an OB to status "-" or "D" will remove it from all
  queues.

* [0388] Solved "double CCS server" problem: if a CCS server called
  "schedule" is already defined, a second OT server with that name
  will not be allowed to run.

* [1672] In all browsers, to select a column one must now click on the
  widget itself. In the previous versions of the software one could
  click on a much larger area. 

* [1650,0876] Browser column width calculation was reviewed; some
  columns should have a more reasonable size.

* [1723] Configuration Reports: first row is now always selected.

* [1729] Improved performance of some EVMs.

* [1570] Telescope name is now displayed in the main OT panel.

* [1696] The OB detailed display window is cleared whenever selecting
  an OB. 

* [1654,1749] Introduced browsing and display support for new NACO
  constraint.

* Changed Repository Browser layout to move Selection menu items from
  command button bar to File or Reports menu.

* [1689] It is now possible to access an OB's last-modification-date from
  the database browser(s).

* [1736] Added new button "Move to top" in Execution Sequence.

* [1767] Fixed bug: entries "Start Time" and duration in the Queue
  View were offset by several hours w.r.t. the actual date/time
  written in the repository.

* [1765] Fixed bug: definitions found in configuration file in home
  directory ($HOME/.ot.cf) were not overriding those of site.cf

* [1332] Fixed bug: in a Database Browser, shift-clicking (to complete
  selection) was not working right after completing a query: one
  needed to first click, although one row was already selected.

* [1722] Fixed bug: VisiPlots was only using one Time Interval, even
  if several were defined.

* [1657] Fixed bug: Repository Browser: could not move mouse pointer
  on menu Selection->Mark when using the CDE window manager.

* [1701] Fixed bug: there were wrong values in drop-down menu 'QC
  Grade'. 

* [1694] Fixed bug: was generating a (harmless) "Attempted to append
  to closed appender" error message when terminating the program.

* [1733] Fixed bug: execution time in Execution Sequence and Queue
  View was displayed in seconds instead of HH:MM:SS, as for other
  browsers.

* [1745] Fixed bug: wrong shared library was referenced.

* [no SPR] Fixed problem with resising of QueuView on notebooks and a
  problem with the SplitterPane.

* [1671] Reviewed generation of released database configuration files.

* [1747] Updated list of supported keyword categories. New list
  includes: ADA AOS COU DEL DET DPR INS ISS OCS SEQ TEL

* Cleaned up debugging print statements from the code. Edited startup
  script so that program output does not get discarded.

* Several user-invisible code changes.

* Minor GUI changes.


==> COMPLETE LIST OF ACTION ITEMS/PROBLEMS REPORTS WHICH ARE NOT
SOLVED YET:

* In P2PP or OT one may notice the occational stack trace when
  changing user and/or exiting windows.
  The stack trace appears as follows:
  java.lang.NullPointerException
    at javax.swing.KeyboardManager.unregisterMenuBar(KeyboardManager.java:312)
    at javax.swing.JMenuBar.removeNotify(JMenuBar.java:647)
    at java.awt.Container.removeNotify(Container.java:1260)
    at javax.swing.JComponent.removeNotify(JComponent.java:3186)

  This bug is a Swing bug, which was fixed in Jan 1999, available from
  Java 1.2 onwards. It has no effect on the operation of the P2PP or
  OT applications.

* Other OT problem reports: active...
      http://www.eso.org/~uss/ohs/jot/OT-bugs.html
  ...and suspended:
      http://www.eso.org/~uss/ohs/jot/OT-suspended.html


==> LIST AND ISSUE OF UPDATED DOCUMENTS:

    None.	

==> ADDITIONAL COMMENTS:	

    None.

$Id: SEG-RELEASE-NOTES-ot,v 1.25.6.1 2002/08/13 14:17:00 amchavan Exp $