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    Fines not being generated for Reserve loans

    • Article Type: General
    • Product: Aleph
    • Product Version: 17.01

    Description:
    We have been experiencing some difficulty with the generation of fines for one of our sublibraries.

    The sublibrary, ABCRB, item statuses - Reserve 3 Hour (In Library Use) and Reserve 3 Day Loan - are not generating fines for patron statuses 51, 56, 57 and 64. This sublibrary was brought on approximately 1 month ago.

    Resolution:
    Looking at the third item, barcode 1500000023, we see that it belongs to sublibrary ABCSB (not ABCRB), with item status 03:

    02 z30_rec_key \
    03 doc_number ................000263241
    03 item_sequence .............000010
    02 z30_barcode .................1500000023
    02 z30_sub_library .............ABCSB
    02 z30_material ................BOOKS
    02 z30_item_status .............03


    This is the Z36H loan history record for this loan:

    01 z36h_loan \
    02 z36h_time ....................200804241453497
    02 z36h_rec_key \
    03 doc_number .................000263241
    03 item_sequence ..............000010
    02 z36h_id ......................001
    02 z36h_number ..................000015972
    02 z36h_material ................BOOKS
    02 z36h_sub_library .............ABCSB
    02 z36h_status ..................A
    02 z36h_loan_date ...............20080423
    02 z36h_loan_hour ...............1305
    02 z36h_effective_due_date ......00000000
    02 z36h_due_date ................20080423
    02 z36h_due_hour ................1330
    02 z36h_returned_date ...........20080424
    02 z36h_returned_hour ...........1453
    02 z36h_item_status .............03
    02 z36h_bor_status ..............57
    <etc.>


    util f/2/10 shows this:

    Enter item barcode (Q to stop) : 1500000023
    RJM: Enter io_z30
    --------------------------------------------------------------
    Load: /exlibris/aleph/u17_2/alephe/tab/tab100
    --------------------------------------------------------------
    Load: /exlibris/aleph/u17_2/abc50/tab/tab100
    RJM: Begin EVALUATE
    Enter bor ID (Q to stop) : 001
    Load: /tmp/utf_files/exlibris/aleph/u17_2/alephe/tab/tab_sub_library.eng
    Enter bor status [57] (Q to stop) : 57
    Z36-BOR-STATUS: 57
    Z36-ITEM-STATUS: 03
    Z30-ITEM-PROCESS-STATUS:
    Load: /exlibris/aleph/u17_2/abc50/tab/tab16
    TAB16 line does not exist <<<<---------------------------------------------------


    And, indeed, doing a grep for 'ABCSB 03' in tab16, we find that there are no such lines:

    ABC50-ALEPH>>grep 'ABCSB 03' tab16
    ABC50-ALEPH>>

    See KB 8192-4555 for a discussion of overdue fine calculation in general.


    • Article last edited: 10/8/2013
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