• Article Type: General
• Product: Aleph
• Product Version: 20, 21, 22, 23

Description:
We want to purge the xxx30 Course Reserves library of doc records not attached to a CNO.  We ran p_ret_01 in xxx30 and retrieved 3049 records.

Before we run manage-33 to delete these, a question....

One type of bib record retrieved was just a stub. Do they need to be retained as a placeholder so that the bib system number does not get used again? Is it OK to delete these?
Example: Bib System number 000000001

In Util F4: 000000001 000144 0004 0008FMT LBK0030LDR L-----nam----------a-----0040

Resolution:
Two things:

1. p_manage_33 does not physically delete records. It leaves a stub record (with the LDR, "DEL Y", etc., fields).

2. In assigning new doc numbers the system uses the util g/2 last-doc-number value. It does not reuse lower numbers.
 

Additional Information:

See also, the article Can manage-33 be run for a Course library?  

• Article last edited: 10/8/2013