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Date:         Fri, 10 Apr 1992 17:16:00 CDT
From:         "Cathy Miesse" <$L$LB47@LUCCPUA.BITNET>
Subject:      Reserves

Loyola University of Chicago is about to bring up course
reserves online in NOTIS 4.6 followed by 5.0.  We currently
have 2 Hr, Room Use, 3 Day, and 7 Day loan periods.  Comments
or suggestions based on your experience would be appreciated.
We are especially interested in how you structured your fines.

Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Cathy Miesse
Head of Circulation
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Date:         Wed, 15 Apr 1992 11:26:00 CDT
From:         CHERYL@NUACC.BITNET
Subject:      Workshop update

Please note that workshop, #C20 "Your Role as TECH1" listed in
NOTISes has had a change of date.  It is being held in Evanston on
May 15, 1992, not on May 21st as published.
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Date:         Thu, 9 Apr 1992 17:03:00 EDT
From:         Janet Woody <JWOODY@VCUVAX.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: sentence option question

I too spent several days trying to figure out the sentence option based
on the NOTIS OPAC manual.  The sentence option is set in the PARALUzz
table in the column next to the super label.  I believe that the
NOTIS Search documentation explains it fairly well.  I've suggested
to NOTIS Systems Inc. that they consider correcting the OPAC manual
references to the sentence option.

I'm sorry I can't help with the "f/c" portion of your question.  Working
on the sentence option has exhausted me.

Janet Woody                                 jwoody@vcuvax
Head, Automation Services                   804/367-0032
University Library Services                 FAX: 804/367-0151
Virginia Commonwealth University
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Date:         Tue, 7 Apr 1992 09:39:22 CST
From:         "Michael J. Stephens" <VB7R0007@SMUVM1.BITNET>
Subject:      RE: U2495 in Program LB395 in Job LB890.

Of course, you could save the jcl or parameter member as unnumbered.  If
you are comfortable with re-writing the program wouldn't it be better to
have the program expect and ignore anything in columns 73-80?

Michael J. Stephens, Tech1
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Date:         Thu, 9 Apr 1992 14:47:44 PDT
From:         Dan Gillett <ZZGILLET@UVVM.UVIC.CA>
Subject:      Re: Generic Loader LCN011B and 850C Abend

Thanks to Marlene Kemski of Windsor!  About one hour after I sent my note,
we got our 5.0.2 tapes.  NOTIS did not include the LCN011B (BIBLOAD) A11 fix
Marlene referred to in our 5.0.1 tapes, but it is on the 5.0.2 tape.

Dan Gillett,   NOTIS TECH1,   E-Mail: ZZGILLET@UVVM.UVic.CA
University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada. (604/721-7676)
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Date:         Wed, 8 Apr 1992 14:55:19 -0400
From:         Beth Picknally Camden <bp2f@POE.ACC.VIRGINIA.EDU>
Subject:      Loading Authority Records
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     I have a question about loading authority records.  When we
loaded our BNA tapes about 3 years ago (NOTIS 4.5?), we had a
number of problems with the loader.  One of these problems was
the way the heading use codes were set.  The name authority
records were coded "cab" (which is correct) and the series
authority records were coded "caa"  (which is not correct).

     We are now planning to load additional authority records
into the database.  We loaded into the test region with the new
5.0.1 loader (LCN030B), and had the same problem with the heading
use codes.  Does anyone else have this problem?  Is there any way
to set parameters so that the series records are coded correctly?
If not, is it possible to load the records without changing codes
(i.e. load names as "aab" and series as "aaa")?  Then we could
use LB365 to set the codes to the correct values.




Beth Picknally Camden
Head, Copy Cataloging unit
Cataloging Services Dept.
University of Virginia
(804) 924-3288

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Date:         Thu, 16 Apr 1992 08:18:18 EST
From:         tARI <KELLER@UKCC.UKY.EDU>
Subject:      Re: LSYS question

I would assume that patron B has been blocked for too many fines.  He/she
would like to pay at least some of those fines immediately.  Otherwise, we
might not let him/her borrow more books.  I don't know how this would work
as I've never tried to set up the situation.   If you get the prompt and
say yes, does it send you to the bill and fines area of the patron's record
automatically?  We are still testing in preparation for bringing up
circulation in May.  This would be useful for the 4 service units that do
accept fines at their circulation desks.

Tari Keller -- University of Kentucky
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Date:         Wed, 8 Apr 1992 10:56:59 EDT
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From:         Dan Kirchner <344PWCF@CMUVM.BITNET>
Subject:      LCN070/LCN071

My understanding is that you use LCN070B to change the NOTIS format to MARC
and use the LCN071B to change the data back from MARC to NOTIS format.
I think you need to use LCN070B when exporting.  Also, you may need to
use LCN071B to reconvert the BNA data back into NOTIS format as well.  You
may also wish to call NSI (Helen Fong) regarding the conversion of the lower-
case 'm' to lowercase 'n'.  I don't know if it applies to your situation, but
I think Helen can tell you more on it.  Good luck.
Dan Kirchner
TECH 1 Central Michigan University     "Underwhelmment Specialist III"
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Date:         Wed, 8 Apr 1992 08:54:21 CDT
From:         pkh@RA.ADP.WISC.EDU
Subject:      5.0 resource consumption
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Folks,
Not to beat a dead horse, or anything so unpolitically correct, but...

We reviewed with much trepidation the timings Queens, Indiana, and other
institutions have posted on 5.0 resource consumption, prior to moving to
5.0 ourselves. Running 5.0 in a test region over several months resulted
in timings that looked like a 2.5-3.0 multiplication factor in resource
consumption.  However, due to "other" APPC programs running in the region,
this has not turned out to be the fact once we put 5.0 into production.

We are running CICS 2.1.1, MVS/ESA 3.1, on a shared 3090-200J with 128 meg/
256 meg expanded, using 3990 triple-density storage.  NOTIS is in a region
by itself along with a "few" companion programs that feed off of NOTIS. Under
4.6.1, we were seeing .20 cpu seconds/per transaction on a consistent basis,
while times for 5.0 fluctuated wildly in the test region.  After moving 5.0
to production, lo and behold!  We now see between .25-.27, averaging closer
to .263 cpu seconds/transaction.  Our question to you NOTIS-L'ers - this is
the number we get after 3 weeks, running between 650,000-812,000 NOTIS
transactions per week (about our busiest time).  Can we consider this .263
figure reliable?

Some notable gotcha's.  We DON'T run the NOTIS OPAC.  We derive our OPAC
and run it on a separate platform.  We also DON'T run NOTISSearch. No need
for it, or it's BRS predecessor under the 4.6 or 5.0 editions of NOTIS.  All
we run is the tech services components - acq/ser, circ, GTO, etc.

A 30% increase in resource consumption in moving to 5.0 does not seem to
come close to other institution's who have posted their experience here.
Any advice/suggestions/oh-wait-till-you-hear-this/etc appreciated by
email or posting.

Thanks for the bandwidth!


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Date:         Wed, 15 Apr 1992 14:54:13 EDT
From:         Betsy Gamble <X8MY@CORNELLC.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: Keyboards For Multi-Purpose Workstations
              15 Apr 1992 14:33:18 EST from <FWHITE@UCC.UWINDSOR.CA>

Re: Multipurpose workstations and the ALA character set

We have approximately 18 technical services workstations running at
Cornell on Macintoshes (MacLC & MacSE, with and without hard drives)
using the COMET terminal emulator developed here at Cornell based on
something from Brown, I believe.  The programmer was kind enough to
use the keymapping function to program all the special ALA characters
to the keyboard in a special "configuration" file called ALA. We used
the same keys which we had been using in Tincan (available for purchase
from Yale) on Sytek.  We switched to COMET because we can use Ethernet
communications and can also run many simultaneous sessions (RLIN, NOTIS,
e-mail).  Keyboards range from the minimal "standard" keyboard provided
with the MacLC to the extended keyboard I got with my Mac SE.

We are also using a locally developed terminal emulator for IBM's, but I
have not used it myself or been in much communication with the tech.
services staff at Mann Library where it is most used.  We have only 2
people using it here in Central Tech. Services.

Betsy Gamble
Head, CTS Original Cataloging Unit
Cornell University Library
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Date:         Wed, 8 Apr 1992 11:20:20 CST
From:         Anna Tripp <A050CCR@SEMOVM.BITNET>
Subject:      Resolved LB630 print @ 6lpi
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Thanks to our Systems Programmers at Southeast Missouri State, we
have resolved the problem of printing the LB630 bill and fine notices
at 6 lines per inch in order to fold the notices for a window
envelope.

In LB630PLI the following line was inserted after

    CALL LILCNT(LNMAX);
    LNMAX = 60;


After LB630PLI is recompiled, the LB630LNK job must be submitted.

LILCNT subroutine is LB920BAL which retrieves the system default line
count and returns it to LB630 in the LNMAX field.  Our system default
line count is set to 81 lines.  By changing the LNMAX field to 60
and using a FCB that prints at 6 lines per inch, the bill and fine
notices print beautifully and fit into a window envelope.

This has been reported to NSI.

Anna Tripp
Sr. Systems Analyst/Programmer
Southeast Missouri State University
Cape Girardeau, MO  63701
A050CCR@SEMOVM.SEMO.EDU
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Date:         Wed, 8 Apr 1992 15:47:00 CDT
From:         CHERYL@NUACC.BITNET
Subject:      JCL ISSUES - REVISITED

THIS IS AN OFFICIAL NOTIS COMMUNICATION

TO:  ALL NOTIS CUSTOMERS
DATE: APRIL 8, 1992

Earlier today, NOTIS erroneously re-issued a message about JCL.
This message had originally been broadcast on NOTIS-L January 31.
It's re-broadcast today was an error.  We at NOTIS regret any
confusion this may have caused.

To update you on VITLS JCL:  the general distribution tape of NOTIS
5.0.2 contains revised JCL which has been successfully run here at
NOTIS (MVS and VSE) with "real" data that was generously contributed
by a NOTIS site.
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Date:         Thu, 16 Apr 1992 09:19:43 EST
From:         Frank White <FWHITE@UCC.UWINDSOR.CA>
Subject:      Keyboards for Multi-purpose Workstations - A Clarification
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Thanks to Betsy Gamble & Jane Aitkens for your replies which were
very helpful.  However, I must learn how to phrase my questions
to be more specific.  I also want to know what you have done with
keyboard itself in terms of displaying the ALA characters on the
the keys themselves.  We are using IBM 3164 terminals here and the
keyboard keys show the diacritics. When you switch to PC workstations
did you buy special keyboards? individual keys? or what?

Thanks again.
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Date:         Tue, 14 Apr 1992 17:17:00 +1200
From:         LBR_SMB@AUKUNI.AC.NZ
Subject:      Overdue and item needed notices

Did anyone solve the problem of overdue and item needed notices not printing
all information? Our notices are missing the text
  Fine is $---/day from ...
and for overdue recall notices
  PLUS an additional fine of $---/day from
  ..........
Our programmer has traced this to the cpo table in LB970, which seems O.K.,
but the equivalent fine amount can't be found in LB612. Is this a problem with
NOTIS, or did we miss a fix somewhere? We are at 5.0.1, and MVS.
  Thanks as ever for any advice

  Chris Wilson LIB1
. University of Auckland Library
  LBR_SMB@AUKUNI.AC.NZCIW
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Date:         Fri, 10 Apr 1992 09:50:00 CDT
From:         AHAMILTO@UA1VM.BITNET
Subject:      Re: NOTIS workforms

One way that we found to get around repetitive keying was to program
function keys.  The step by step instructions for doing that are included
in my article "Programming Function Keys for Commonly Used NOTIS Commands,"
LIBRARAY SOFTWARE REVIEW 10(July/August 1991):252-6.  We have found this
helpful in a lot of different areas of the library.

If you have questions, I'll be glad to help.

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Date:         Thu, 16 Apr 1992 10:06:02 CDT
From:         Cindy Goldstein <LB04ILF@MUSIC.TCS.TULANE.EDU>
Subject:      GTO problems

I know most of you have had GTO up and running for some time, but we
are still trying to get it working here at the medical library.  The
crazy thing about it is that our main library has it working, but we
can't seem to here across town.  If anyone can help, we would be forever
in your debt.
The problem is that OCLC says it's sending the record and GTO says it's
receiving and uploading the record, but we can't find the record in the
NOTIS database.  We have checked and double checked the various settings
and can't find anything that differs from the main library's settings,
but theirs works and ours does not.
We are using a PS/2 and OCLC M386sx, the serial printer cable that came
with the M386sx and we are running NOTIS 4.6.  I'm sure we are over-
looking something minor but obviously essential.  We are a one OCLC
terminal library so we are basically out of business transfer wise til
we get this resolved.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
Cindy Goldstein
Tulane University Medical Center Library
(504) 587-7317
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Date:         Tue, 14 Apr 1992 11:20:00 CST
From:         VAUGHAN@VUCTRVAX.BITNET
Subject:      subdatabases

   We use subdatabases, but I don't know of any way to search
them separately. The advantage of using them is in reindexing.
It is much easier to index a small subdatabase than to reindex
the entire database. After the subdatabase is indexed, the
data is reproed into the main database, and the subdatabase
can be deleted. Only the indexes for the subdatabases are kept.

Maryanne Vaughan
Vanderbilt University
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Date:         Thu, 16 Apr 1992 15:59:16 EDT
From:         Betsy Gamble <X8MY@CORNELLC.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: Keyboards for Multi-purpose Workstations - A Clarification
              16 Apr 1992 09:19:43 EST from <FWHITE@UCC.UWINDSOR.CA>

Re: Keyboards

Tincan had a very nice keymap that could be printed out.  Since many
keys have as many as 4 alternate values, we have not done anything on
the keyboard itself, but rely on the on-line keymap or printed copy.
The nice Tincan map was one of the reasons I asked the COMET programmer
to put the values in the same place in COMET.  COMET has a facility
to dump all the programmed key values as a list into an edit window
(each session has a window + edit window).  We can then print a
list from the edit window.  That list will also include any keys
the user has programmed themselves into their configuration of COMET.

Betsy Gamble
x8my@cornellc.bitnet

P.S. to those who have requested more info. on COMET.  It is available
to download from cornellc, but I'll need to investigate what the
exact process is, since I get my version from a fileserver when I
need updates.
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Date:         Fri, 10 Apr 1992 08:01:17 CDT
From:         Fred Gulden <LB.FHG@ISUMVS.BITNET>
Subject:      Sentence option question, part 2

>2.  Also, what exactly does the "f/c" character case
>qualification do?  Would one use this when the first
>letter in a word is capitalized?  No real explanation
>in the user's guide.  This is discussed on page 123
>of the 5.0.1 opac user's guide.

Yes, you would use this when you want to find words where
only the first letter is capitalized.  For example,
k=mcdonald.f/c.
would retrieve Mcdonald but would screen out McDonald.

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From:         Janet M Cavanagh <JTCAVANAGH@SBCCMAIL.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: Assigning new barcodes

               State University of New York at Stony Brook
                       Stony Brook, NY 11794-3339

                                            Janet M Cavanagh
                                            Head, Circulation/Reserve Department
                                            Library-Circulation
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SUBJECT: RE: Assigning new barcodes

        Harm issues for assigning new barcodes while item circulating. We had a
t least one case at Stony Brook where an expensive Engineering Book was charged
out. Then a barcode was placed in a literture book (very thin, which is easy to
steal from our main stacks, because it can be slipped under an emergency exit
door!) The item id for this literature book was place in the copy holding record

of the circulating engineering book and the literature book was present to the
main library for discharge, which it would have done it we hadn't caught it. It
would have discharged the engineering book from the patron. I called NOTIS and
the person I spoke to said it was very smart of our students to figure it out. I

can't think how this could have been an "accident." It must have been an inside
job. Beacause so many of our items are still unlinked, we feel we must let
student employees have access to item id.
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Date:         Wed, 15 Apr 1992 16:51:00 CDT
From:         Yungpei Tsai <TSAI@KSUVM.BITNET>
Subject:      VITLS with EBSCO

         When we ran our last VITLS load following EBSCO
processing, we received a message that the tape lacked
an invoice number.  All of the processing reports
returned with the tape from EBSCO, however,
consistently displayed the invoice number.  We had not
changed either the extract or load routines since our
last load.  That load was also on NOTIS 5.0 and was
successful.  EBSCO told us that this had to be a NOTIS
problem.  We were able to load the tape, but pay
statements lacked the invoice number.
         Has anyone else experienced this?  Can anyone
suggest where we may have gone wrong?

Forwarded by Yungpei Philip Tsai
Automation Librarian
for
Anita Gordon-Gilmore
Serials Librarian
Fort Hays State University
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From:         dave <TCHODGD@VCCSCENT.BITNET>
Subject:      Media Booking/Circulation module

Does Notis have, or are they planning a Media booking/circulation module.
Something a media center would use to check out/in materials such as
videos, slides, films.  It would also need to schedule equipment moves.

anything?

please mail me direct, I am not on your list.

Dave Hodge               <tchodgd@vccscent.bitnet>
Systems Librarian
Tidewater CC
VA Beach, VA
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Subject: Re: GTO Problems
Date: 17 Apr 92 08:20:43 GMT
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FROM: CCSC     CCSC      Critchfield, Sherri

DATE: APRIL 16, 1992
SUBJECT: Re: GTO Problems

   We've run into several causes of GTO saying a record has been
uploaded when actually it has not.

 - UCTRAN problems, either through the TCT, or from our VSE menu.  We
have the choice of pressing F6 or F9 to escape to CICS.  Using F6
causes upper case translation, and transaction fails.
 - A file being closed when it wasn't supposed to be.
 - A bad record causing so many errors, it filled the report file.
Transactions following it couldn't write to the report file, so they
failed.  (I believe those massive errors occurred when data was sent
from the OCLC PC incorrectly.)
 - The FCT for a file didn't have the needed add, update, etc. set up.
 - Probably something else I just don't remember right now.

   Running a trace on the transaction has helped me track down causes
when I couldn't find it easily.


    This is something that has bothered me about GTO.  If something
goes wrong in LGTB, no indication is given.  Fortunately, once we got
it going, we haven't had problems.  But it seems to me if a problem
occurred,  a person could work for hours, with GTO saying records are
uploaded, when actually they are not.  Was there something I've missed
that notifies users when a transaction doesn't complete?

Sherri Critchfield
Systems Analyst
Missouri Southern State College

 
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