Updated in v3.5

OSI Look and Feel improvements have been made in version 3.5.  UPDATED IN RESSIM 3.5

Bug in v3.5

There are numerous MINOR bugs in the OSI in version 3.5.  Improvements are expected in future versions.

The Operation Support Interface (OSI) is a user-configurable data visualization and editing tool designed to enable you to create your own custom interface to perform one or more of the following activities:

  1. Review results
  2. Develop an operation schedule using release (or elevation) overrides
  3. Compute local inflows between gaged flow locations and estimate local inflows where gaged data is unavailable.
  4. Edit reservoir inflows and local flow timeseries graphically or in tabular format

These activities revolve around the type of variables you include on your OSI tabs. Since these activities are quite different, they are usually set up on different tabs (or sets of tabs) of the OSI.

To understand those two statements, you'll need to learn some OSI basics. In the first three subsections of this Section, we'll provide an explanation of OSI variables, the organization of the OSI user interface, and the basics of OSI setup. In the subsequent sections, we'll describe how to use the OSI to perform each of the activities listed above. Examples will be used to illustrate the process and to help explain why you'd want to use the OSI in the first place.