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What follows is an historical account of CLIO Year 2000 preparations.
NOTIS is a large and complex application that supports a number of mission-critical operations and services within the Libraries and campus-wide, including: library materials ordering, receipt and fund accounting; journal check-in; book circulation; staff cataloging operations; and the patron-access online catalog. Parts of the NOTIS software were orignally written some 20 years old at Northwestern University where the software originated; other modules have been completely rewritten in the past 10 years by Ameritech Library Systems and its predecessor vendor "NOTIS Systems Inc."
In addition to the mainframe portion of the application, several smaller distributed components of the system ("TAG", "New GTO," and "WebPAC") run on IBM RS6000 servers running AIX 4.1 or 4.3. The two TAG servers are channel-connected to the IBM mainframe and housed in the computer center; other servers are physically located in LSO (currently 507 Butler Library).
One additional component of the system ("Old GTO") runs on several older DOS PC-based baser servers located in Library work areas.
(Information about the current mainframe operating environment is available from Bob Resnikof and/or Vace Kundakci (AcIS). LSO's current understanding is that AcIS must upgrade both CICS and MVS in order to achieve full Year 2000 Compliance, and that these upgrades are now in the planning stages.)
The NOTIS TAG, New GTO and WebPac applications are confirmed by Ameritech to be Year 2000 compliant. Both the RS6000 hardware and the AIX versions have been confirmed Y2000 compliant by IBM.
The Old GTO software is confirmed by Ameritech to be Year 2000 compliant; the hardware (IBM PS/2) on which it runs and the OS (DOS 5.0) have preliminarily been determined to be Y2000 compliant, but will undergo further testing.
Because NOTIS stores dates internally in a format that has always been able to handle dates up to 2027, we have a degree of confidence that the vendor's statements re Y2000 compliance are accurate. Locally we have already been able to input, display and process 4-digit year dates as part of our normal operation (e.g., for books expected to be published in 2000 or byond, for journals that have subscription dates beyond 2000, etc.)
Last revision:
01/04/00
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