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NM-DMS Enhancements List StatusMartin Bass

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Annual Users’ Group Meeting

August 27 – 31, 2006

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Enhancement List Status – The Numbers

List developed at 2006 Focus Group List prioritized via e-mail votes Input received from 17 utilities Votes received from 11 utilities List contains 49 enhancements Top 10 contains 13 items (ties for 4th, 6th and 9th place) ABB has reviewed list ABB plans to implement 14 features this year (Release

3), and 2 more next year (Release 4)

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Top Ten Enhancements - Summary

Rank Description Status

1 Outage history should be available from Ormap

2 Ability to drag outage symbol in partially restored outages to the new outage location. Crew should also move with the outage

Planned for Release 3

3 List of customers that will be affected by an outage


4 Ability to add user-defined columns to all OMI status dialogs and forms (including tag status)


4 OMI Call Status, Outage Status, add additional columns (user defined columns)


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6 Ability to go back to a specific time/date and play back operations

6 Landbase performance. Allow the loading of specific Landbase layers into memory


8 Capability to add custom procedures to other objects

9 Ability to show all crews in outage status dialog Planned for Release 3

9 Landbase - flag in database to say that this specific file should be loaded into memory permanently

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9 Cursor should be positioned in first text entry field when a dialog pops up


9 New 'outage complete' flag and validation procedure

9 Easier way to associate isolation operations done through Ormap to an outage

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Other Enhancements Planned for Release 3

Rank Description

13 Display additional device category information in outage status - fuse, recloser, circuit breaker

17 DSCADA freeze time window - there are cases where the SCADA clock can be a different time to DMS time. The users want to be able to prevent calls that came in from freezing if they came in after the device operation

20 Default the 'Exact match' in Ormap search dialog to unchecked (or make a preference)

25 Remove limit of viewing 1st 100 in show affected customers when needed

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Other Enhancements Planned for Release 3

Rank Description

25 Ability to blank out field time stamp in operation confirmation dialog, rather than defaulting to current time/date. Operator is required to enter field time/date (e.g. gray out OK button until field is populated)

31 Ability to do bulk ETR updates via OMI outage status dialog

31 Longer field size for OMI_Connect and cadops.ss.server_names preference (application limit?)

41 Isolated kVA dialog needs to exclude abandoned transformers

43 Percent kVA downstream

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Planned Enhancement Details

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Drag Outage Symbol

Currently, partially restored outages show the outage symbol at location of original outage

Confusing when outage is not shown at isolation point

Was originally done by design, because there could be multiple isolation points

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Initial Outage

Outage at Open Switch

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Partial Restore With Two Open Fuses

Close Switch – Outage Partially Restored

Open fuses before closing switch

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Move Outage Symbol

Enhancement will allow outage to be moved to either of the two open fuses

Outage will still show in outage history as being at switch

OMI locate from outage status will locate to new location

Entry in Outage Log should show which user performed the operation

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Move Outage Symbol

Different ways being considered: Drag outage symbol in Ormap

Use standard device selection to allow user to pick:

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Move Outage Symbol

Different ways being considered: Use something similar to candidate outages list (comes up when

removing jumper)

User would select one isolation device from list, determined by tracing:

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Customers That Will Be Affected by an Outage

Existing operation confirmation dialog shows list of affected transformers

Could be modified to show customers in a separate tab

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Existing operation confirmation dialog shows list of affected transformers

Could be modified to show customers in a separate tab

Tab would allow list to be saved to an Oracle table

Free format text field allows planned outage to be specified

Would like a process to be executed afterwards – Oracle stored procedure Tab Here

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Or, could create a switching plan in simulation mode

Execute switching plan

Generate list of customers

Switching plan approach currently planned for Release 4, could be copied back to Release 3

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Landbase Performance

Allow the loading of specific landbase layers into memory

Used for layers that will be on all the time, such as county or state outlines.

New database settings will be added to specify which layers are in memory

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Show All Crews in Outage Status Dialog

If more than one crew assigned to an outage, outage status dialog currently shows earliest crew in most advanced state, e.g.: Crew Martin is Arrived at 10:00 am

Crew Bill is Enroute at 9:00 am

Dialog will show crew Martin, because he is Arrived

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Show All Crews in Outage Status Dialog

Outage status dialog will be modified to show a tree of crews Implement an 'Expand' function to show multiple entries for the

same outage so that assigned crews can be shown

Expanded list should allow operations on crews to be performed, such as ETA, status change, etc

An indicator should show whether the outage has multiple crews assigned so that the user doesn’t have to expand

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Device Category in Outage Status

Display additional device category information in outage status - fuse, recloser, circuit breaker

Additional column will be added

Existing column, showing ‘DEVICE’, ‘SERVICE TRANSFORMER’, ‘CUSTOMER’, ‘SOURCE’ will remain, but can be turned off

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DSCADA Freeze Time Window

Current ASCII SCADA interface causes existing downstream outages to be frozen when an open operation is received

Intent is to prevent loss of nested outage information

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DSCADA Freeze Time Window

Additional calls received after SCADA operation, but with a timestamp earlier than SCADA operation are also made part of frozen outage

However, if the SCADA clock is behind DMS time, calls do not freeze as they should

Solution: Add a time window to apply to calls so that they freeze

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Default 'Exact Match' in Ormap Locate to Unchecked

Currently box defaults to Exact Match being checked

Add preference to default to unchecked, as many searches are not exact

Enter should initiate the search

If the search yields only one result, Ormap should locate automatically

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Remove 1st 100 Limit in Affected Customers

Initial list will show 100

Count still needed

Scrolling down would automatically fetch the next 100

Also add a ‘next page’ button

And a ‘fetch all’ button

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Blank Out Operation Confirmation Field Time

Blank out field time stamp in operation confirmation dialog, rather than defaulting to current time/date

Operator is required to enter field time/date (e.g. gray out OK button until field is populated).

Time entry should allow calendar dialog for time entry or keyboard

Keyboard entry should be configurable to not require entry of seconds.

Colon should be optional Behavior controlled by a user

preference

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Bulk ETR updates via Outage Status Dialog

Outage Completion Dialog can be used to restore multiple outages and assign bulk ETR updates

However, duplication of functionality between newer Outage Detail dialog and Outage Completion Dialog

Confusing for operators to use two different dialogs for same (or similar) purpose

Solution: Allow multiple outages to be selected

Support ETR dialog display/entry for selected outages

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Isolated kVA to Exclude Abandoned Xfmrs

Isolated kVA dialog in Ormap shows transformers that are not electrically connected Used for data debugging Add checkbox and filter out transformers with the abandoned attribute set in the load table

(new attribute) Add second checkbox to filter out transformers that have zero (or negative!) number of

customers Should not show planned additions. If it does, add a checkbox to filter them out The dialog will be resizable

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Percent kVA Downstream

Relic from 3.0 UNIX version

For old version, click on a line device to get connected kVA information per traced feeder Total kVA

Downstream kVA

Percent kVA

Solution: Add traced kVA information Right Mouse menu option

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