Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Ralph Lange <[email protected]> · Tue, 06 Jan 2015 10:03:22 +0100

Hi,

Many installations use the output of a 'dbl' command on an IOC to create

a "list of records on this IOC" file that gets scanned by some other

service. (E.g. IRMIS, ChannelFinder, PV search databases, etc.)

The 'dbl' command lists alias names as if they were records, with no

distinction.

In many cases this is desired (e.g. for a PV search database), in other

cases listing only names of "real" records would be preferred (e.g. for

consistency checks, some ChannelFinder applications).

Running 'dbl "" NAME' does create something that shows that extra

information (both sides are equal for a record, else the left side is an

alias for the right side) but obviously changes the output format.

What would be the smartest way to allow both options and make everyone

happy?

Should we go for an entirely new command with a new output format that

maybe also shows the record type? ('dbl' with empty arg1 loops over the

types, but does not show them.)

One-line-per-record-straight-ascii or XMLish?

Indecisively,
~Ralph