AENA Onsite Status Report

Project Name: Corballis Developer(s): Report Period: Aerospace Performance Factor Sandor Vasi 27/11/2012-28/11/2012

Summary
I found the two days in the AENA HQ really useful. As it is described below, the main goals were achieved: the sample and the real AENA data are imported to the local APF instance and the Aena engineers can update it in the future without assist. We found minor issues and the majority of them have been solved onsite and gave me good indications how we might improve our ANSP Questionnaire and the APF User Manual. I also got some improvement ideas from the safety engineers how we could improve the import wizard usability.

Key accomplishments
Successful import of the Sample Database Successful import of the actual Spanish Data from Excel files Successful import of the actual Spanish Data from the live Oracle Database using MS Access as a Wrapper Successful training of the Import Wizard for the AENA Safety Engineers

Issues
The APF User Manual was not available for AENA and this was the reason why they had difficulties using the APF data import earlier. Radu provided the latest version of the documentation and they - SOLVED If the APF is connected to a database, some data sources were not available. It was a coding fault, but minor issue, and fixed locally. - SOLVED If the APF is connected to a database had a large amount of tables (the APF needs access to two tables, but there are 1500 others available) the time it took to read all the tables caused a timeout issue. The documentation needs to be changed. In case of big database, a database access configuration is recommended. - SOLVED We were not able to connect from the APF to the Oracle database directly. The possible cause of the problem is that the spanish character coding in the local Database. An SQL dump is provided by AENA that will help us with the investigation - OUTSTANDING

Other Comments
I found the AENA staff really helpful, well educated and proactive. I built a good relationship with the safety engineers and they have offered their help for further testing and evaluation. The IT department and the whole infrastructure was well designed and it was easy to work with them. Special thanks to: to Antonio for the entire support to Gerardo Sarmiento Fernandez (Safety manager) Mar Antonie Gaca (Safety Engineer) and to the two IT support guys