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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 19:18:38 -0600
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- From: LEIGH WILLIAMS <F_WILLIAMS@CCSVAX.SFASU.EDU>
- Subject: RE: 24 hour OPAC
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- We've had 24-hr a day access for four years now. CICS stays up all
- the time, and I code our JCL so that when a file is scheduled for
- update, the operator closes that file, reopening it after the job
- completes. This results in a few minutes or so when the database
- might not truly be available, but nobody ever seems to notice it. The
- advantage to folks dialing in and telnetting to us is obvious and well
- worth the time I spend putting PAUSEs in the JCL -- and the relatively
- few times an operator who is asleep at the switch has forgotten to close a
- file for update! This "feature" of our OPAC is greatly appreciated by
- both faculty and students.
-
- Leigh Williams
- SFASU
- F_WILLIAMS@CCSVAX.SFASU.EDU
-