DefelRadar
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- Join Date
- Jun 2003
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Hello,
I am converting to iFIX 6.1 and talking to a PLC5. I have several TX tags that were looking at N32 addresses in the PLC5 and were getting converted to ASCII.
The old FIX32 system talked to the PLC5 using the ABR driver.
The new iFIX system is talking to the PLC5 using the IGS driver.
Is there special I/O address naming convention that would allow the N32 (Integer) PLC address value to be converted ASCII through the IGS driver without any additional code on the iFIX side of things?
For example if my I/O address is Test.PLC5.N32:24 and it reads the value 65 then I would want that value to be converted to ASCII = "A".
So in the iFIX tag database could I append something to the I/O address like "M" or "MSH" for it to convert it for me. For example could the I/O address now be Test.PLC5.N32:24MSH and it would read "A" instead of the integer value?
Thanks for the help!
I am converting to iFIX 6.1 and talking to a PLC5. I have several TX tags that were looking at N32 addresses in the PLC5 and were getting converted to ASCII.
The old FIX32 system talked to the PLC5 using the ABR driver.
The new iFIX system is talking to the PLC5 using the IGS driver.
Is there special I/O address naming convention that would allow the N32 (Integer) PLC address value to be converted ASCII through the IGS driver without any additional code on the iFIX side of things?
For example if my I/O address is Test.PLC5.N32:24 and it reads the value 65 then I would want that value to be converted to ASCII = "A".
So in the iFIX tag database could I append something to the I/O address like "M" or "MSH" for it to convert it for me. For example could the I/O address now be Test.PLC5.N32:24MSH and it would read "A" instead of the integer value?
Thanks for the help!