WP 5696, ECR 1500402

The version of GDS software for the control room has been updated to branch gds-2.17.1.3.  This release addresses several Bugzilla bugs regarding data access, especially NDS2 data access.  

A new NDS2 input section has been added which will allow the user to specify an epoch start and end time, which will limit the channel list to those that existed during the epoch.  For those channels whose data rate was changed without changing the name, it will be possible to specify an epoch where only a single data rate exists.  (This assumes the user knows the time that the data rate changed.)  If multiple channel rates for a channel exist during the chosen epoch, those rates will be displayed when channels are selected.  Because of the way NDS2 returns data, it is still possible to get incorrect data if you choose a data rate for a time when the data really doesn't exist, so it's best to narrow the epoch to display only a single data rate for the channel.

Diaggui now warns you if you don't have a kerberos ticket when attempting to use the NDS2 input.

A release note document has been generated for the GDS tools, see T1600007.