Description

What causes the availability status in the AVA field to be set to “Check holdings”? 

Resolution

The value of the AVA tag is set to “Check holdings” in the expand_doc_bib_avail program if SW-CHECK-HOLDINGS has a value of "Y": 
  IF SW-CHECK-HOLDINGS = "Y"
  THEN
      MOVE "check_holdings" TO L-AVAIL-STATUS

There are several conditions under which SW-CHECK-HOLDINGS is set to “Y”.... 

1. if there's an HOL record but no z30 (item) records
2. if there's an expand_doc_bib_avail THRESHOLD parameter and the number of items exceeds its value (or, if there's no THRESHOLD parameter, and the number is greater than 10 (the default value for THRESHOLD)
3. if Z30-ENUMERATION-A is not blank and some items are available while others are unavailable

Note 1:  The status can also be set to "Check holdings" for MAB records (tab100 MARC-TYPE=4), as HOL records in MAB don't have collection data.
Note 2:  In order for an update to be sent to Primo, the $usr_library Z00P record for this title must be updated (by the ue_21 publishing daemon).  

• Article last edited: 1-Sep-2017