Re: Urgent IT question for INNOPAC catalogers (or system administrators!)

[Cliff Glaviano <jglavia at bgnet dot bgsu dot edu>]

Hi Sarah, all,

   On the text-based version of our Innopac, we have an option B > Load 
MARC BIB records from tape or FTS  which I assumed you have on your system 
... FTS is Innovative's version of FTP ... even though your option may read 
differently, check and see if under your "Load" function you have an option 
to   F > Read MARC records into Innopac using FTS ... may be a different 
letter on your system, or you may have to ask III to turn it on ... worst 
case: your system is so old there is nothing there to turn on ...

   I think you have gone as far as you can by restarting the OCLC port ... 
as I mentioned in an off-list reply, at some point (Release 2002??) we were 
no longer able to restart our OCLC port to get the download to work ... 
Innovative may have documentation on that ...  or, it may be time to ask 
for anyone that is still using the printer interface to download from OCLC 
to contact you ...

TNX

Cliff


At 09:30 AM 9/6/2005, you wrote:
> Big thanks to all who sent suggestions about my failed async 
> connection!  So far, no luck yet, but I'm still trying some things.  A few 
> follow-up questions:
>
> I've checked the settings with III and OCLC, the OCLC port has been 
> restarted, the terminal
> used to download from OCLC has been restarted, and Phyllis, the printer is 
> still connected to the Lantronix box, and I'm not sure how to reset the 
> printer port.  Is that a different port from the OCLC port?
>
> Still working with IT to (I hope) test the actual connective hardware to 
> find out if a cable or connector is shot (there's some whatzit that 
> apparently can test the pins in the connectors).  Candace suggested solder 
> points; where are there solder points, and how do I fix them?
>
> I tried to create a file for download in lieu of using an async 
> connection, but our Innopac system is so old that it will only read MARC 
> records from disk or tape, and the external storage media capabilities of 
> my computer and the server computer do not match.  Cliff, you said FTP to 
> a file and load to Innopac via FTS; what is FTS?
>
> Lastly, does anyone know whether a change in the IP address or subnet mask 
> of our server could cause this problem?  That is, is there any point in 
> this connection where something needs to reach an IP address?
> We made some IP changes here, and we've already worked out the change with 
> III so that our catalog is accessible, so everything that needed to be 
> changed should have been...but maybe there's some last place where it 
> needs to be changed that no one thought of.  Just grasping at straws here!
>
> Thanks again for all the help!
> Sarah
>
>
>
> Sarah Danser
> Assistant Librarian for Technical Services and Archivist
> Nutting Memorial Library
> Maine Maritime Academy
> Castine, ME 04420
> Tel:  (207) 326-2262
> Fax:  (207) 326-2261
> sarah dot danser at mma dot edu
>
>
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