Utility Viewer

[Catherine Nicolo]

Managingyour electric utility assets to optimize useful life and improve system reliability requires a consistent methodology and technical approach to assessing key criteria linked to asset health and risk assessment. This depends on the collection and assessment of relevant and quality asset data, which is essential to any electric utility asset management system.

Stakeholders across your utility need quick access to the asset technical information and maintenance orders found in the electric utility asset performance management software. Departments such as engineering, planning, operations and asset management can request data that is situation and asset-specific, looking for details that are not provided through broadly distributed reports or software access. Providing these stakeholders with on-demand views into the asset lifecycle data in the context needed can improve decisions and strengthen utility asset performance management.

Cascade Viewer is a web-based software solution to quickly and easily find and view your asset lifecycle information, supporting improved operational efficiency in your utility asset management program. The value of your asset lifecycle data in Cascade is extended to all stakeholders with Cascade Viewer, with its intuitive navigation and search capabilities.

Cascade Viewer is specifically designed to be intuitive to find and access the most common information needed within the electric utility asset management data for simple requests. Finding specific technical asset information is supported by intuitive search methods including location and equipment hierarchies, free form text search and map-based views of search results. Information displays are conveniently organized into location, asset and maintenance overview displays, with key data, summarized information, and the ability to drill further into specific details if needed.

With authorized access to Cascade Viewer, stakeholders can be confident in finding the most recent, up-to-date information on your assets, without impacting the system performance for those working in Cascade. The result is efficient and confident decision-making for situations where asset information is needed right away.

As a web-based solution, the electric utility asset management software is deployed with industry-standard secure web services as an on-premise solution. Users are centrally administered through Cascade Setup. This ensures that only authorized employees have access to Cascade Viewer. You control user access control and data accessibility. Sensitive asset information exclusive to Cascade system users is restricted from Cascade Viewer.

The following training videos provide step-by-step instruction for new features of the Public GIS Viewer. The videos will open in a separate window, allowing you to toggle between the video and viewer.

The Public GIS Viewer contains the combined functionality of the Legacy GIS Viewer and the newer appearance of the Enhanced GIS Viewer. In addition, the viewer has been improved with the addition of the following features and is updated nightly.

The Public GIS Map Viewers use pop-up windows to display details on mapped wells and pipelines. Disable pop-up blocking software while using this viewer. If you are not sure if pop-up blocking is enabled on your computer, try our Pop-up Blocker Test.

The Railroad Commission of Texas (Commission) is committed to making its website accessible to all users. However, the inherent graphical nature of the Public GIS Viewers and the volumes of data represented make accessibility more difficult. The Public GIS Viewers use software written by ESRI, which currently does not meet the accessibility requirements outlined in Texas Government Code 2054, Subchapter M, and Texas Administrative Code, Chapter 206. ESRI has stated its commitment to meet accessibility requirements and continues to test its products for compliance. The Commission will continue to monitor the accessibility of GIS and the activity of GIS product vendors to improve compliance with state and federal accessibility requirements.

The Commission specifically disclaims any and all warranties, representations, or endorsements, express or implied, with regard to these data sets, including, but not limited to, the warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement of privately owned rights.

Note: GIS maps may not be used for pipeline location purposes in lieu of calling an official notification center prior to excavating. It is a violation of Texas law to fail to make the required 8-1-1 calls.

This utility provides read-only access into the registry.pol file (or any other .pol file). Registry.pol is the file that GP uses to store registry-based policy settings made by Administrative Template, Windows Firewall, Application Control Policies (AppLocker), Software Restriction Policy or Disk Quota policy.

There's a handy utility that I'm aware of that used to be online somewhere wherein I can mouse over a UI element and it'll give info on the element and the tree it's in. Does anyone have that DLL lying around?

I have been really struggling as some of other users of late to pinpoint sources of latency and conflicts , especially when USB devices are involved. I currently am using a PreSonus Studio 68 USB 2 Audio Interface and just having some really annoying crackles when working with the latest update of SampleTank 4.04. I was wanting to make sure that the PreSonus was on a dedicated USB channel and found this utility that provided a clear and straightforward view of how things were connected.

Yes,

It allows you to see what devices are connected to what USB Device, Root Hub, etc.. Very helpful and confused as to why Device Manager does not have something like that? I tried looking at the show devices by connection and by resources but it is very confusing while this is just straightforward and easy to understand.

Found it, I got confused with view Resources and that threw me off. The utility does seem to make things a little clearer as you do not have to drill down through the tree. I knew that was there I guess I just got lost in the forest because of the "trees"? .

You will save yourself a lot of time by referring to this page first, before contacting FERC with problem issues. Most problems will involve Internet communication issues which are addressed below. Of course, we make mistakes - and need to fix things on the server or with the software, so we do not mind emails, questions, and suggestions.

The public version of the Form 1 database is available for partial or complete download to client sites and may be viewed with the Form 1 Database Viewer (Form 1 Viewer). The Viewer will permit the selection, viewing and printing of individual or all Form 1 or 1-F annual submissions for 1994 through the last filing year and quarterly (3Q) filings submitted in the past.

The resulting Form 1 Database downloaded to the local client may be manipulated for specific reporting or analysis needs using Microsoft Visual FoxPro (VFP) or commercially available reporting software such as Crystal Reports or others that support the VFP database container structure. Learn how to connect to a Visual FoxPro Database through Microsoft Access to access the Form 1 database.

Once the application is installed on the client PC, it is accessed through the Start\Programs\FERC menu. There are two sub-items under FERC\Form1View heading named Form 1 Data Download and Form 1 Data Viewer. You must first use the Form 1 Data Download application to obtain the database.

Within the download application, you should select the companies you are interested in and the filing year. (You select multiple companies by highlighting them on the displayed list. To highlight multiple companies, use the standard Windows selection technique of ctrl key/left mouse click.) You have a checkbox option of selecting all respondents (Form 1 Filers) for a particular filing year.

The download process may take a few minutes, depending on your connection speed and the number of companies requested. When requesting one or more companies, the server extracts the requested companies from our database and creates a small database with just the requested companies. This database is compressed, sent via Internet to your PC, and decompressed. All this takes some time. So, give it a few minutes before you think something is wrong.

The more companies you select, the longer it will take to get the data. If you want many companies, it may be quicker to download the entire database for the year instead of selecting individual companies.

The downloaded information is not cumulative. When you download a new selection, the previously downloaded data is replaced by the new download. (Of course, you can always copy or download it to another directory if you wish to retain it.)

As an alternative, you can download a compressed (zipped) copy of the database for particular years. If you want the most current information, you might visit this site just to check the dates on the files. When the date changes, we have probably added more respondents, or made other corrections to the database. If you have problems with this, contact your computer support personnel.

You should not experience much trouble downloading and installing the Viewer application on your workstation. However, the component of the viewer that provides the Listing of Available Companies - and downloads the database may not work properly with your workstation or network configuration. In the event that you cannot download data, it is suggested that you download the entire database for the specific year you desire. The downloaded file should be unzipped into the appropriate folder. Then, start the Viewer and use Options/Change DB Location to point to the database folder.

The Form 1 Viewer uses HTTP (to get the list of respondents), FTP Receive (to check for and deliver Form 1 updates). These common Internet Communication Protocols may be blocked by your Internet Firewall for security reasons. This will require intervention by your computer or network support personnel.

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