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Not only may TS2000/DTN be doomed in the long run, it may be doomed in the
very near future.
In a conversation with a senior DTN tech support person today, he suggested
that the only reason that TS2Ki users have not already experienced serious
tick loss problems using RS 232 ports and high speed serial cards, is that
tick volume has dropped in the last few months ( stock market lower and 911
effect). The lack on an Ethernet / USB interface to Global Server is a
killer, particularly as factors that increase tick volume come into play
(additional data fields, decimalization, single stock futures, etc.) Even
if Tradestation can complete a patch/fix by Dec. 15-16 ( Tradestation
support techs remain noncommittal during my recent calls), this "fix" may
not actually fix the problem. As BobR points out, without the high speed
capabilities of an Ethernet connection to GS, the problem will only get
worse in the longer term. I have urged DTN to again postpone the changes to
their feed beyond Dec.15-16, if Tradestation requires a few more days to
complete the patch. Hopefully, TS2000/DTN customers will not be caught in
the middle a second time. Please call both DTN and Tradestation to express
your concern.
Regards,
Jim Alvis
----- Original Message -----
From: "BobR" <bobrabcd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <realtraders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, November 30, 2001 1:58 PM
Subject: [RT] DTN and TS2000
> Had a little talk with a dtn tech this morning about the changes they are
> making in the datafeed. December 15/16 is their next planned activation
of
> the emini volume, tick correction, and whatever else. As dtn users recall
> the last time they "Beta" tested this, our CPU useage went to near max on
a
> dual 600mhz if the ES or NQ were being charted. Some cpu's may have hung
> up. Closing those charts and maybe radar screen dropped the cpu useage
back
> to normal and the server collected the data OK I think. Problem is even
if
> Omega provides a service pack for this, TS2000/DTN may still be doomed in
> the long run. The reason is dtn is going to make additional changes that
> may overload the RS232 ports creating tickloss and only software that is
> ethernet compatible will be able to keep up with the feed. I don't
> particularly want to give up the dtn feed since it has so much on it in
the
> way of statistics. Has anyone found a NIC/Comport emulator? Seems like I
> ran across something like this the other day in some software and can't
> recall where. But maybe even that wouldn't work with the Global Server.
>
> bobr
>
>
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