FWD Software

["Van Buren, Gene" <gene AT bnl.gov>]

Hi, all

I have two questions to raise here....

1) As I noted last week on the ops mailing list, there was a run where the 
magnetic field dropped off at the very end of data-taking. Most of the run is 
fine, but I understand that FWD subsystem physics (as well as all 
mid-rapidity physics) would be affected by the magnetic field drop. I would 
like to know if there is already a way to set the status of FWD subsystems to 
"not OK" in the middle of a run? I can already do this for the TPC, but I 
don't think we yet have a global way to do this....I might need to invent 
that.

2) I understand the TPC gating grid malfunctioned for a few hours yesterday. 
Again, I can set the TPC status to "not OK" for these runs. But is there any 
use for these runs for FWD physics without the TPC? If not, we can just mark 
the runs as bad.

Any feedback is appreciated. Thanks,
-Gene