Both the switch to IDL 5.2 and to Unix MDSplus have been postponed until the next 2 week down period in June. The switch to IDL 5.2 was necessary only for license management purposes.
Users therefore have more time to test their codes on triton under the new version.
If you are an IDL programmer, please test your codes under IDL 5.2 For assistance contact any member of the Data Analysis Group. While we were able to get Unix MDSplus working and ready for user access, we have found that the performance of Unix MDSplus using NFS-mounted disks is poor. Rather than impose a penalty on data access times, we will remain with VMS MDSplus until June. This will give us time to diagnose and fix the problem with NFS access. At that time normal access will be restored and the system will be able to store data for new and old shots.