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    Course reading overdue notices

    • Article Type: General
    • Product: Aleph
    • Product Version: 18.01

    Description:
    Is there anything we can do to produce updated overdue notices during the day for our short-term circulation items, such as course reading?

    Resolution:
    The p_cir_5n overdue notice programs only give you items which were due yesterday or earlier -- not today.

    The following sql procedure looks for items circulated today whose due time has passed:

    set echo off
    set pause off
    set term off
    set show off
    set feed off
    set verify off
    set heading off
    set pagesize 58

    spool reservedue.outfile

    select z36_id, z303_name, substr(z36_rec_key,1,9) || '-' || substr(z36_rec_key,10,6), Z36_DUE_HOUR, z13_title from z36, usr00.z303, usm01.z13 where z36_loan_date = TO_CHAR (SYSDATE, 'YYYYMMDD') and to_char(sysdate, 'HH24MI') > Z36_DUE_HOUR and substr(z36_rec_key,1,9) = z13_rec_key and z36_id = z303_rec_key order by z36_id, Z36_DUE_HOUR;

    spool off;
    exit

    <end sql file>

    [Note:
    You need to substitute your $usr_library for "usr00" and your bib library for "usm01".
    You should *not* substitute values in "YYYYMMDD" and "HH24MI". They are system variables: the date/time format into which SQL places the current date/time.]

    To execute it you do:

    > s+ abc50

    SQL-ABC50> @reservedue

    It produces a file "reservedue.outfile".

    If it seems that this would be of use, it could be set up in the job_list.


    • Article last edited: 10/8/2013