Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!umich!samsung!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!psuvax1!psuvm!MVS!ADLB001 From: ADLB001@MVS.MCGILL.CA (Ron Johnston) Newsgroups: bit.listserv.notis-l Subject: Re: batch VSAM updates Message-ID: Date: 2 Feb 90 15:02:00 GMT Sender: NOTIS/DOBIS discussion group list Reply-To: NOTIS/DOBIS discussion group list Lines: 21 Approved: NETNEWS@PSUVM Gateway X-Delivery-Notice: SMTP MAIL FROM does not correspond to sender. Comments: To: NOTIS/DOBIS discussion group list In reply to Andy Perry's question about wholesale changes of location: Our contacts at Notis Systems offered to send us a program from Northwestern which is NOT part of the product and is not supported by NSI, ie problems caused are yours not theirs. This was a couple of years ago and their policies may have changed. However the program presumably still exists over in Northwestern. I expect it needs adapted if you are MVS. It probably also needs local customization. Our people have shifted collections several times and I believe they changed locations the hard way, one record at a time, except prior to our third and final load of our MARC records. I would prefer to see an online function which would accept a "new location" code and then would accept any number of barcodes. Then when a shipment of items arrived in the new location, the process of updating the system would amount to reading in all the barcodes. This would amount to a quasi-real-time location change. Am I dreaming in technicolor? Ron Johnston, McGill University, Montreal