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10.7 PARAMETER SET DATABASE
CSF provides a database for storing parameter sets. Fundamentally a parameter set is a just an attribute
table with some additional metadata. The metadata associated with a parameter set is the same as a script.
Parameter sets can be accessed by specifying one or more of the given database parameters:

Category – the system that 'owns' the parameter set. The convention is to use the system tag (e.g.
atst.tcs, atst.ocs, atst.ics.vbi, etc.) as the category.

Name – the identifying name for the parameter set within the category. In the case of parameter
sets use by instruments, this is typically the observation mode (e.g. observe, gain, setup, etc.).

ID – a distinguishing tag for different parameter sets within a given category and name. For
example, the parameter sets within the atst.ics.vbi category and named observe for the Observe
operation mode may have ids such as generic, tableA, tableB, etc.)

Version – unique key for any parameter set. Regardless of category, name, and id, all parameter
sets are automatically tagged with a unique version number. The version number is updated
whenever a parameter set is inserted or updated in the parameter set database.
For a complete list of script storage/accessor methods see the source or api documents for
atst.cs.services.ParamaSetDB (Java) or atst::cs::services::ParamSetDB (C++).
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