Thanks to Sam Habiel, and Bhaskar (YottaDB), and some VA employees, Vivian has had some major fixes!

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Nancy Anthracite

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Dec 31, 2021, 8:52:35 PM12/31/21

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Vivian is found here: https://vivian.worldvista.org

As most of you know, OSEHRA closed in mid Feb 2020 and transferred most of its web content and training assets to WorldVistA. Vivian is an important part of what was transferred. Vivian is generated by a truly remarkable but very complicated script that takes about 8 hours to run. With time, there have been issues with generating Vivian as the FOIA changed and other issues came up. Skip Ormsby helped apply a bandaid to one of the issues while we were waiting for a permanent fix. Thankfully, Sam Habiel has managed to fix most of the issues. His work was very generously funded by Bhaskar of YottaDB. In addition, the ability to generate the ICRs or Integration Control Agreements has been fixed thanks to VA employees working hard to generate the text document about the agreements to allow it to work with the existing parser used in the Vivian generation script.

The two major issues that were fixed by Sam were as follows:

- Somewhere early this year (which is just ending), the script that

installs our version of XINDEX that produces a lot more dependency tracking

information broke. It broke because FOIA (correctly) disabled the option to

restart taskman, which our script used. This is now fixed by starting

taskman using the public entry point ^ZTMB, and now we are back to using

our version of XINDEX. More information can be found here:

https://github.com/WorldVistA/XINDEX.

- DI*22.2*19 changed the output of the Data Dictionary (DD) Lister in ways

that Vivian couldn't cope with. The first error that we fixed is that this

patch prints subfile DD even if the parent does not point to it anymore

(issue with the domain file); Vivian correctly complained that this subfile