Re: Working with Innopac after Passport/CATMe end of life

[Alma Garcia <almag at mills dot edu>]

Just to add to the topic of telnet.  Our campus administrators are 
severely limiting access to telnet across the board.  Only SSH access is 
allowed for a limited number of persons, to a limited number of 
functions on a limited number of servers.

This trend started a few years ago and is continuing.

Alma

McDonald, Stephen wrote:

> > If OCLC telnet is dead, then I think customers such as ourselves (who
> > use both OCLC and III) need to lobby OCLC to relax or cancel the
> > termination provisions of the CatME and Passport licenses as
> > "compensation" for this radical upset to our workflows.  
>
>
> I might be wrong, but I understood that CatME and Passport simply
> /cannot/ work with the new internal system they are putting in,
> the Oracle backend.  They would have to rewrite CatME and Passport
> to do it, and they are dropping them on that date specifically because
> they do not want (and probably don't have the manpower or time) to
> continue to maintain and upgrade those systems.
>
> 						Steve McDonald
>
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