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To keep this pot of conflicting information simmering, let me throw in what
I was told by DTN tech support on Friday. They said that while they will
implement some changes to their feed over the next two weekends, the
addition of fields for "incremental volume" in futures contracts has been
postponed indefinitely. According to DTN, it was this incremental volume
field (or lack thereof) that apparently caused the Global Server to ball up
and eventually crash the last time they tried to add it to the feed. DTN
pleaded ignorance concerning Omega's patch - who can blame them.
In any case, without some prospect for an Ethernet / USB interface to
handle steadily increasing tick volume, TS2Ki seems destined to choke to
death as a viable intraday platform. On Friday, DTN said that recently,
Tradestation had, once again confirmed for them, that Tradestation had no
plans to make the software changes necessary to permit use of a higher
capacity data interface. Whatever Tradestation comes up with to make their
program compatible with DTN in the short run, the whole exercise strikes me
as a little like rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.
Think I will back up and wait to see what happens Sunday night - Monday.
Regards,
Jim Alvis
----- Original Message -----
From: "BobR" <bobrabcd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Craig" <craigbud@xxxxxxxxxxx>; "omega- list" <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2002 3:32 PM
Subject: Re: CL_DTN dll I instructions
> At a minimum the reg mod will probably be required to keep the cpu from
> running max out with the new data. It will probably run at a slightly
> higher percentage useage just to do useless work of aborting some kind of
> charting task that isn't functional. Whatever that task is it will start
> and then timeout and charting will go about its ways until the next tick.
> If you find your cpu usage maxing out where prior to this weekend it ran
in
> the low teens or less, then just close any charts with the emini's. The
> server should still collect the data. Then when the right reg and dll
> appear. Of course this is no solution but at least you still get the
data.
>
> Agreed. Before screwing with this:
> 1. make an emergency repair disk that includes the registry(w2000 has that
> option)
> 2. copy the entire Omega folder into a backup folder
> 3. have a complete drive backup via something like the Duocor
> 4. don't overwrite the old dll with the new one if you get it, but rename
> the old one OLDor__dtn32.dll and then copy the new one into the same
folder.
> 5. also if you do the reg mod rename the old pds file as OLDpds before
> reimporting the data.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Craig" <craigbud@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "omega- list" <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2002 11:32 AM
> Subject: Re: CL_DTN dll I instructions
>
>
> > So DTN customers will get screwed on Monday, unless they catch a DLL
that
> > was on Omega's website for a few minutes, or if they manage to get the
> > word-of-mouth about a reg edit? I called DTN yesterday and the guy said
> > there won't be any problems. It's just that we won't receive the new
data
> > fields from DTN until we get the DLL, which is obviously not ready yet.
> >
> > Of course, one should drag-copy their server to another hard drive
before
> > fiddling around with an unofficial patch.
> >
> >
> >
> > At 09:46 AM 1/12/2002 -0800, BobR wrote:
> > >Here is how I read it, but am guessing at it. The dl patch was
supposed
> to
> > >permit the GS to receive and utilize the changes in the new dtn
> datastream.
> > >For some reason they pulled it, who knows why. In its place they came
up
> > >with the reg mods so the TS charting would not drive the cpu useage up
> the
> > >wall like it did last time. If you note, the reg mod has to do with
> chart
> > >time out. This appears to be a temporary fix so the new data can still
> be
> > >used but maybe not at its full functionality, like for emini volume and
> tick
> > >correction. Last time the server still collected the data but without
> the
> > >enhancements but the TS Charting had a problem with it. So it just
seems
> to
> > >me right now that Omega is providing as limited a solution as possible
so
> we
> > >can keep running on one leg. Be sure to keep your Windows Task Manager
> > >(w2000) open to the Performance button and watch the CPU Usage for
> > >abnormalities. In Dec the useage went from a few percent to 85% on a
> dual
> > >cpu.
> > >
> > >bobr
> > >
> > >----- Original Message -----
> > >From: "Randy" <rdsmith5@xxxxxxxxx>
> > >To: "John Mc Kenzie" <intruderjohn@xxxxxxxx>; "omega- list"
> > ><omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>; <code-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > >Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2002 9:22 AM
> > >Subject: Re: CL_DTN dll I instructions
> > >
> > >
> > > > Does this patch effect both futures and equities data ? Does anyone
> know?
> > > >
> > > > randy smith
> > > >
> > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > From: "John Mc Kenzie" <intruderjohn@xxxxxxxx>
> > > > To: "omega- list" <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>; <code-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2002 11:54 AM
> > > > Subject: CL_DTN dll I instructions
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > Up-date: (1) I did an export of all DTN data
> > > > > in case this whole thing turns sour. I highly
> > > > > recommend this first ( see below ).
> > > > >
> > > > > (2) I followed the Omega instructions on Regedit
> > > > > & then finally re-booted. {Re-boot completes}
> > > > >
> > > > > (3) At this point there is Virtually No Data in GS
> > > > > and pds file greatly reduced in size ( each file )
> > > > >
> > > > > I then :
> > > > > (4) Imported the data that I had exported
> > > > > in (1) above. My data is Now Back in GS.
> > > > > (5) pds file grew tremendously
> > > > >
> > > > > (6) I then had Charting re-build charts I had Up from
> > > > > Firday and they are the same ( you must do an
> > > > > open charts - - there is No list at this point of what
> > > > > you had open last - - it was deleted with the re-boot)
> > > > > so the " from Last Session" is Not avail.
> > > > >
> > > > > (7) I am reconnected to DTN (went to on Line).
> > > > >
> > > > > Am hoping this works. There is still Nothing Posted
> > > > > on Omega ftp & the or_DTN32.dll file is missing.
> > > > >
> > > > > Keep it up Omega & we'll all switch to TS6 - - sure
> > > > > right on ! Need some Help, Mark.
> > > > >
> > > > > Trade Well & Smart,
> > > > > John
> > > > >
> > > >
> >
> >
>
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