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- Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 13:16:32 PDT
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- From: Dan Gillett <ZZGILLET@UVVM.UVIC.CA>
- Subject: Re: Patron Delete Dates
- Comments: To: Irene Pelak <pelak@PILOT.NJIN.NET>, NOTIS-L@TCSVM.BITNET
- In-Reply-To: Your message of Tue, 8 Sep 1992 10:00:21 EDT
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- On Tue, 8 Sep 1992 10:00:21 EDT you said:
- In fact the LB510JC job is not designed to do what you want to do, that is
- change specific expire and delete dates to indefinite..see the flowchart
- on page LB530BAL.2-.3 of the old NOTIS Programmer's Reference Guide.
- We wanted to do exactly the same thing and when it did not work we started
- looking at the code and the flowchart. The interface does not distinguish
- between missing date values and indefinite date values.
- >We originally set our staff to expire on 9/1/93 and delete on 9/15/93. We
- >changed our mind and decided to give staff indef expire and delete dates.
- >I built the patron interface record with PIFDATD, PIFPDATF and PIFPDATD blank.
- > The subrecord expires and the id expires fields now read indef but the
- >subrecord delete and id delete still reflect the previous 09/15/93. How do I
- >force them to indef?
- >IRENE PELAK TECH1 BERGEN COMMUNITY COLLEGE 201-447-9236
-
- Dan Gillett, NOTIS TECH1, E-Mail: ZZGILLET@UVVM.UVic.CA
- University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada. (604/721-7676)
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