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Greetings, > Regarding the NOAAPort/SBN changes, if the main impact is likely to be > products now on HDS will be transferred to NGRID, why can’t we simply replace > all references to HDS with HDS|NGRID in our pattern/actions? You could. What we cannot guarantee is that there won't be overlaps with WMO headers such that some products may overwrite one another. We think that's rather unlikely, but we wanted to highlight what the impacts could potentially be. Another reason could be bandwidth... Say you are currently REQUESTing HDS from us, using ".*" to capture everything on that feed. That feed is comparatively small to NGRID in terms of the amount of data it carries. If you change that REQUEST to HDS|NGRID and nothing else, well now you're getting everything on BOTH of those feeds. If your site can handle that it shouldn't be much of a problem. But if your site has bandwidth concerns this could lead to issues. It's also worth mentioning that by making a change like REQUESTing a whole new feed, you may want to check in on your product queue after a little bit of time to see if you need to adjust its size or number of product slots, both can be done in the LDM's registry. Long story short, you can absolutely replace HDS with HDS|NGRID, but there may be consequences so be aware. > > You say that “in places within the LDM code the logic gets a little fuzzy.” > This leads me to ask (if I may) if Steve Emmerson and Tom Yoskas have retired > from Unidata. I know they were getting close. > > Thanks for your help Both of those fine gentlemen have moved on to greener pastures, pretty sure it's a field of hops. Stonie Cooper is the current LDM developer and with him you are in good hands. Best, -Mike Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: VAU-279996 Department: Support IDD Priority: Normal Status: Closed =================== NOTE: All email exchanges with NSF Unidata User Support are recorded in the Unidata inquiry tracking system and then made publicly available through the web. If you do not want to have your interactions made available in this way, you must let us know in each email you send to us.