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McIDAS-XCD Status Display Window

The McIDAS-XCD Status Display window lists information about the data that is being processed by the ingestors and data monitors. The Status Display window can be started with the statdisp command.

A sample Status Display window is shown in Figure 3; the table below it defines each field in the display. The top section of the display shows the status of the ingestors. In the sample display the text ingestor INGETEXT last filed data at byte 566186320 in the raw text file and last filed data in the index file FT06157.IDX at byte location 135328. The bottom section of the display shows the status of the data monitors. In the sample display the surface observation data monitor SAODEC has decoded data from the raw text file at byte offset 532608. You can tell that SAODEC is up to date because the Begptr and Lasptr fields are identical. Once SAODEC has read up to byte 532608 it rereads the index file SA06157.IDX to determine if there is more data to be decoded. If no more data is available then the data monitor will wait 30 seconds and then try again. In the sample display, SAODEC last wrote to MD file MDXX0007 at row 53 and column 3320. The TIRDEC entry is red because it's inactive.

Figure 3. Sample Status Display Window

The table below defines each field in the Status Display window.

Field	Definition
##	ingestor
Src	circuit receiving the data
Ingestor	ingestor command name
Time	time the data was last received
Byte	last byte number the ingestor wrote
Index	last directory location the ingestor filed; not used by INGEBIN
Index file	index file name last written to; for INGEBIN this field displays the spool name
Origin	origin of the last block filed; the value is extracted from the WMO header; not used for INGEBIN
Wmo	product header of the last block filed; not used by INGEBIN
Product	WMO product number of the last block filed; not used by INGEBIN

##	data monitor number
Decoder	decoder name
Time	time data was last processed
Begptr	current index location being decoded
Lasptr	last index location decoder processes before checking for more data
Gridf/MD	last GRID or MD file the decoder wrote to
Grid/Row	last GRID number or ROW number written to
Col	last MD column number written to
Text	text description of the decoder process
Index	name of index file used to keep track of data in the raw text file