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Date:         Tue, 6 Oct 1992 13:29:48 EDT
From:         Suzanna Lengyel <LENGYEL@YALEVM.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: Unusual happening on foreign currency conversion, part 2

This is a tentative reply to Gene Dewey's note of October 2 in which he
reported that when the NOTIS invoice processing program deals with a high
Italian lira amount, it multiplies the lira amount and the currency conversion
factor incorrectly.  Gene mentioned that the amount showing up in the OPR pay
statement is incorrect.

At Yale, we are not using the foreign currency conversion feature of NOTIS.
But we discovered a somewhat similar phenomenon when we first began testing
release 5.0.1.  We found that when the invoice amount was above a certain
amount (I vaguely recall something between $190,000 and 200,000) and we tried
to apply a discount, the net amount resulting from mutiplying the gross amount
and the discount percentage, yielded an incorrect result.  We found this to be
true only for so-called "free floating" (non-order related) pay statements
entered directly in the invoice record.  The multiplication seemed to work
fine in the pay statements in the OPR record.  We reported this bug to NOTIS;
the problem tracking number is PPQ4559.

This may be totally unrelated to the bug reported by Gene Dewey, but there
also could be a common origin.

Suzanna Lengyel.  Yale University Library Systems Office. (203) 432-1844.
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Date:         Mon, 5 Oct 1992 17:21:00 AST
From:         RE_SMITH@UPR1.UPR.CLU.EDU
Subject:      Re: VT's and ALA Character Set

Kevin,
Hello again. I think I wrote you this before, but yes we do use VT420's,
and ALA, but NO 7171.  We use Simware.

Bye.

Rey Smith, Lib I, Univ. of Puerto Rico (re_smith@urp1.upr.clu.edu)
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Subject: temp storage cleanup
Date: 3 Oct 92 14:29:00 GMT
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A while ago one site mentioned suspecting that NOTIS earch was not
cleaning out temp storage properly, thus leading over the course of
the day to a gradual filling of temp stor with leftover junk.  Has
this site been able to confirm or disprove their suspicion?

If confirmed, is their a remedy?  Is a warm start sufficient to
reset temp stor?
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Date:         Tue, 29 Sep 1992 08:38:19 EDT
From:         Irene Pelak <pelak@PILOT.NJIN.NET>
Subject:      disregard previous question
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Please disregard my previous question about the LB610 daily report charge
count.  I was passing on a question from the librarians and did not have a
report in hand to see the Renewal counts a couple lines down.  Sorry.
IRENE PELAK  TECH1  BERGEN COMMUNITY COLLEGE  201-447-9236
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Date:         Mon, 28 Sep 1992 15:15:34 CST
From:         Beth Nicol <BNICOL@LIB.AUBURN.EDU>
Subject:      PASSPORT/3270
Comments: To: notis-l@vm.tcs.tulane.edu

Has anyone thought about, or explored the possibility of developing a
3270 terminal emulation for Passport (2.00 or higher)?  I haven't any
real idea of what this might involve, but it would be nice to open a
session to OCLC and to our local system using the same software (for
a change).....

Any ideas about who at OCLC we could talk to about this idea?



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Date:         Thu, 1 Oct 1992 09:50:21 -0500
From:         "(LEIGH WILLIAMS)" <F_WILLIAMS@CCSVAX.SFASU.EDU>
Subject:      RE: Vendor studies
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We have a report called Vendor Efficiency which is sorted by vendor.  It
prints percentages of orders filled within 30, 60, and 90 days, and orders
that were cancelled by the vendor.  It hasn't been updated to work with
the 5.x order file; we've been doing the modifications on an as-needed
basis.  Sally, let me know if you'd like to receive the 4.6 version; we'll
probably modify it soon, so you might want to wait a couple of weeks.

Leigh Williams
SFASU
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Date:         Sun, 4 Oct 1992 16:20:04 CDT
From:         WEILAND@TWSUVM.BITNET
Subject:      Zero hits

Debbie Morrow asked about zero hits in staff mode with 5.0.2.  We first noticed
this some years back when we were still on...4.5?  4.4?  Exactly the same
situation:  when the command "ltxx fi a shakespeare wil" was input, NOTIS
serenely replied "No index entries".  Pressing ENTER again got the same result.
Shortening the search string almost always rectified the problem, though some-
times lengthening it also worked.  We tried keeping track of when it happened,
on what terminal, what kind of search, etc., but there was no pattern we could
discern.  A query to (a somewhat smaller) NOTIS-L back then revealed a couple
other sites had a similar problem but no easy answer to our situation.  As far
as our public services people could tell, it never happened in the OPAC, just
staff mode.  It seems it actually happens less since MHI with 4.6 and now
5.0.2, but there are still instances of when it does happen.  We just live with
it.  Sorry to be of no help, Debbie, but you're not alone.  I am mystified as
to why you are getting the problem so often, however.

Sue Weiland
weiland@twsuvm.bitnet
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Date:         Tue, 6 Oct 1992 11:12:54 CDT
From:         Nancy John <U31452@UICVM.BITNET>
Subject:      chat-l: weather

For those of you who want the latest on the weather front (!)
here in Chicago:

The operative words are crisp, cool, breezy, and sunny
(lows in the 40s, highs in the 60s and 70s); chance of
rain toward week's end. Could be down in the 50s on Saturday.

In short, the weather is terrific! Hope you all have
splendid views of our skyline as you arrive.
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Date:         Fri, 2 Oct 1992 15:40:48 CDT
From:         SMUIR@UA1VM.BITNET
Subject:      Re: Individual Patron Group Changes
              2 Oct 1992 09:14:25 EDT from <pelak@PILOT.NJIN.NET>

Here I go out on a limb answering a Circulation question.  We allow
patrons to have only one active category.  We also only allow one
patron ID per patron.  When we tape load new records we receive a report
- NOTIS Patron Record Update Error List 1 (LB525).  From there we manually
correct the records providing the patron with the highest level of
Circulation priviledges for which (s)he is qualified.  I do not remember the
specific steps used in updating the records.  If you are interested you could
contact Barbara Brosier bbrosier@ua1vm.

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Date:         Wed, 30 Sep 1992 07:54:46 -0500
From:         STEFFERJ@VUCTRVAX.BITNET
Subject:      Re: OPAC Searching

Vanderbilt keeps track of OPAC statistics and we do have authority
control.  We load LCSH tapes each week and have an authority unit
dedicated to keeping our database "clean."  Our no-hit statistics
are not much different from yours in author searching (22.3% in 90/91
and 24.4% in 91/92).  We do a little better in the subject category and
can see a drop since installing 5.0 (with cross references in the OPAC.)
We put 5.0 in production in June '91 and our annual statistics cover
July 1 to June 30.  In 90/91 no-hits by subject were 39.4%; in 91/92
no-hits by subject were 34.1%.
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Date:         Mon, 5 Oct 1992 09:24:58 EDT
From:         Rob Kairis <RKAIRIS@KENTVM.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: LSYS Overdues for DATE loan type...

Carolyn,

I'm not sure I understand your problem.  Kent State has developed a method
for the type of Interlibrary Loan transaction you describe, however, as of
today we have not actually put it in production.  We created a new location
code for our item records representing material borrowed from other libraries.
By doing this we were able to create a single DEFAULT circuation situation
that only applied to our interlibrary loan transactions (similar to your
NOLOAN policy, with overdues, grace period, etc. relavent only to ILL
transactions).  Since the location code (main,ill, for example) is the
determining factor behind the transaction, a separate LOAN CODE (such as
your DATE) is not even necessary.  All you would need to do is create a
single (default) circuation sitiuation for the location code for ILL materials
using the loan/overdue policy (which can also be created specifically for ILL
transactions).  My apologies if I misunderstood your problem (this is an area
that is new to me).

Rob Kairis
Systems Librarian
Kent State University
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Date:         Fri, 25 Sep 1992 15:57:02 CST
From:         "Michael J. Stephens" <VB7R0007@SMUVM1.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: CHAT: BSR Rumour Central

  Obviously Jim is trying to push the NOTIS camel through the 4381 needle.
Can anyone imagine such a thing.  As to the parentheses around Leigh's
name I can only say that for item 1 all contributions will be cheerfully
accepted (the BSR slush fund should be fat this year, too) and for item
2 I trust Leigh but not all youse guys.  Keep your mitts off!  Eat your
hearts out guys.  She's mine!  Anyone want to buy a $5000 3081K?  See you
at the party.

Michael "The Boss" Stephens
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From: jlc5f@poe.acc.Virginia.EDU (Jean L. Cooper)
Subject: Clarkson tn3270 emulation
Organization: University of Virginia
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 13:52:34 GMT

Tangentially, does anyone have information on how to
create an end-of-field mark with the Clarkson tn3270
emulation (or any tn3270 emulation)?  Here at UVA, we
have been using the IBM316x and TVI950 emulations on the
Ungerman-Bass LAN.  However, now we are installing an
Ethernet network and must find equivalent emulations
for our staff.  I would appreciate any information you
have on this topic.  Thanks.

Jean Cooper
Assistant Systems Librarian, LIB2
University of Virginia
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"The true University of these days is a Collection of Books." 
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Date:         Thu, 1 Oct 1992 13:06:00 EDT
From:         Ron Johnston <ADLB001@MVS.MCGILL.CA>
Subject:      zero hits
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Rob Kairis:  the 5.0.2 OPAC deserves the rap.  We currently are
running both the 5.0.2 OPAC and the 4.6.1 LUIS (without keyword).
I just checked again and the old LUIS did indeed find hits for
A=SHAK... such hits as SHAKAN, despite several trailing blanks
entered with the space bar.

I have a suggestion for correcting the situation.  The OPAC sig
can consider this one.  Allow the use of one of the punctuation
symbols to represent desired blanks.  So the "smith" problem cited
by one respondent could be solved by the user entering:
A=SMITH A_ where the underscore after the final A represents a
desired blank.  The OPAC program that normalizes the search string
could then (1) eliminate any trailing blanks entered using the
space bar, then (2) change any underscores to spaces.  Thus only
the explicitly desired trailing blanks would be matched to the
MHI index.

RJ
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Date:         Thu, 1 Oct 1992 00:10:00 EST
From:         "A. Ralph Papakhian" <PAPAKHI@IUBVM.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: FYCL screen

This is not FYCL screen direct ... but

Ind. Univ. has installed 5.1. Those of us using cutcp/ip tn3270
can no longer use the > bracket to move from opac record to staff
mode.  That does not seem to be a problem with 3164's.
Gary Charbonneau here has the technical explanation of why that
happens (I don't understand any of it), but I thought you all
using cutcp/ip should know in advance.

Most cordially,
A. Ralph Papakhian, Music Library (Co-Listowner for MLA-L@IUBVM)
Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405
(812) 855-2970  papakhi@iubvm.bitnet papakhi@iubvm.ucs.indiana.edu
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Date:         Mon, 5 Oct 1992 11:49:41 CST
From:         Beth Nicol <BNICOL@LIB.AUBURN.EDU>
Subject:      TN3270 field mark
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Jean:  Try <alt>-=.  That works on the version I have.  For other
goodies, try browsing the TN3270.tbl file.  This is the input for the
3270 key setup.



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Date:         Wed, 30 Sep 1992 17:19:29 EDT
From:         Rob Kairis <RKAIRIS@KENTVM.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: zero hits
              30 Sep 1992 13:06:57 EDT from <MCLK-HWB@UKCC.UKY.EDU>

The ED command is only available to MDAS sites.  For us less fortunate,
the only way to revise a search is with the R command.

Rob Kairis
Systems Librarian
Kent State University
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Subject: MARC Record Tools in C
Date: 1 Oct 92 15:52:16 GMT
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   The Yale MARC/NOTIS record tools are now available. The toolkit contains
48 functions that read, manipulate and write tagged records. Examples and
documentation are also ready. This project was an effort of the Systems Office
Programming staff at Yale : Rich Howd, Huey Chan and myself.

   We have loaded the source, header files, documentation and examples on to
yalevm. They are accessible through anonymous ftp and are on jcoffey.200. No
read password is needed.

   To download the information, "ftp yalevm.ycc.yale.edu". Log on as
anonymous, and access the proper minidisk by typing "cd jcoffey.200".
I would recommend that you first "get" the following files:
       FILELIST.TXT  - A list of all files on the minidisk
       MARCMANL.TXT  - An introductory manual

   To download all the files, use "mget" if you have it. The total disk space
needed is about 500K.

   If you have trouble with the transfer or don't have ftp access, contact me
by e-mail at jcoffey@yalevm.ycc.yale.edu or by phone at (203)-432-5565.

   This toolkit will be explained at NUGM session #25.

   Note : The code is Copyrighted and is released for non-profit,
non-commercial use only.

                                         John Coffey
                                         Tech1, Yale
                                         jcoffey@yalevm.ycc.yale.edu
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Date:         Mon, 5 Oct 1992 13:53:50 EDT
From:         Anaclare Evans <AEVANS@WAYNEST1.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: Clarkson tn3270 emulation
              5 Oct 1992 13:52:34 GMT from <jlc5f@POE.ACC.VIRGINIA.EDU>

With Extra (entry level) and the IBM3270 emulation, the end of field mark is
the combination of <shift> and <home>.  The delimiter is the right square
bracket.  I find the combination of the keyboard map and the manual to be
most useful in finding the proper key combinations.
Anaclare Evans
Head, Database Management, Wayne State Univ.
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Date:         Wed, 30 Sep 1992 12:34:13 EST
From:         Alan Alexander-Manifold <ALANAM@PURCCVM.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: Individual Patron Group Changes
              30 Sep 1992 12:15:33 EDT from <pelak@PILOT.NJIN.NET>

Irene,
I was constantly updating records to move people from one patron group to
another during the first six months after we brought up circulation.  We
had many students who became staff, and many staff who became students,
etc.  This became such a headache that I combined the student and staff
patron groups into a single group, with separate categories.  I wrote a
series of SAS programs and JCL to combine the update files from two
sources into a single update tape with everybody's categories, etc., set
properly.  The conversion was quite a bit of work, but it was well worth
the effort in time I have saved since.  Most problems disappeared, and
many others can be dealt with by people with lower authorizations.  I will
be presenting this, and much other information at NUGM sessions 9 & 42, if
you want more details.
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Date:         Thu, 1 Oct 1992 10:04:28 CDT
From:         Billy Combs <BCC044B@SMSVMA.BITNET>
Subject:      RE: Vendor studies
              1 Oct 1992 09:50:21 -0500 from <F_WILLIAMS@CCSVAX. SFASU.EDU>

Leigh:  I read your message  to  Sally concerning the Vendor Studies and
        the program which is 4.6 version, producing a Report of
        vendor effieiency.
        I would like very much to receive the program from you with
        hopes I could use it for my latest project for the Library THANKS.
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Date:         Mon, 28 Sep 1992 13:35:00 CDT
From:         "Alice F. Permenter" <$L$LB48@LUCCPUA.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: Global changes in 5.0.2

Ann -- Who me, laugh?  I have to work on this also, so would prefer that
replies go to the list.
.
> How many sites out there in NOTIS Land have global changes
> working in 5.0.2?  If you have, did it require minor tweaking or major
> fixes?  Or did it work perfectly just as NOTIS sent it?  OK, quit
> laughing and please reply either to me directly or to the list.  Thanks.
> Ann Bradshaw
> Manager of Bibliographic Services
> Dallas County Community College District
> Big D, Texas
> ASB1@DCCCDBIT.BITNET
.
Thanks in advance for your help and support.
.
Alice F. Permenter
Head, Online Catalog Management
Loyola University of Chicago
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Date:         Tue, 29 Sep 1992 13:57:41 EST
From:         JOSEPH HARMON <JHARMON@INDYCMS.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: 5.1 in production

Sorry for the confusion.  In 5.1 you can certainly do author or title searches,
but you cannot do author-title searches.  i.e. in 4.6 you could do:
a=voltaire 1694 1778 .candide and pull up records having voltaire in the 100 or
700 fields plus candide in the 240 or 700 |t  fields.  You can still do that in
tech. serv. mode -- very handy for locating the authority record for
Shakespeares Works.  But 5.1 normalized the punctuation, so it no longer reads
the "." as a title indicator, thus, no more author-title combinations in OPAC.
Wait until you see some of the other surprises 5.1 has in store: years of care-
fully crafted bib and authority records, xrefs and uniform titles thrown every
which way.  Be prepared to do a lot of explaining to your public service col-
leagues; they are going to need some TLC to get through this release.

Joseph Harmon
IUPUI University Library
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Date:         Wed, 30 Sep 1992 14:04:55 EST
From:         "Sally Gale, Indiana State" <LIBGALE@INDST.BITNET>
Subject:      Vendor studies

          ** Duplicate posting NOTISACQ and NOTIS-L **

Has anyone developed a program to study vendor performance using data
from NOTIS acquisitions records?  I'm especially interested in reports
generated using SAS to manipulate NOTIS data.

I've looked at the list of programs in NOTISPRO, but none of them
looked promising.  Is everyone waiting for QuikReports?

If you monitor vendor performance this way, how useful is the
information?  If you will be attending NUGM, I'd be interested in
hearing about what you're doing.

Sally Gale, Head of Acquisitions           (812) 237-2531
Indiana State University Libraries         libgale@indst.bitnet
Terre Haute, IN 47809                      libgale@cml.intstate.edu