Transcript Aleph Enhancements

Aleph Product Working Group
Aleph PWG Business Meeting
Berlin, Sept. 9th, 2013
Aleph PWG Business meeting, Berlin 2013
Aleph PWG Agenda
1) Aleph v23 Enhancement Process
2) Conference Planning
3) Aleph v22 Enhancements
4) Q & A
Aleph PWG Business meeting, Berlin 2013
Enhancements 2013/2014
1)
Detailed information about enhancements can be found in
http://igelu.org/products/aleph/aleph-enhancements
2)
Timeline for enhancements
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Sept. 20, 2013: NERS database is closed to new enhancement requests
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Sept. 21 – Oct. 12: PWGs clarify and validate requests
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Oct. 13 – Oct. 26: First voting period
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Oct. 27 – Nov. 24: ExLibris assigns development points to enhancements
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Nov. 25 – Dec. 29: PWGs work with ExLibris to clarify requests and pointing
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Dec. 30 – Jan. 17, 2014: Final voting cycle
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Jan. 18 – Jan. 24: PWGs select final enhancements to submit to ExLibris
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Jan. 25 – 30: Remove ELUNA enhancements sent to ExLibris.
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Jan 31: PWG submit final enhancements to Ex Libris
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Using NERS for ALEPH enhancements
1) New enhancements are submitted on NERS
2) Old enhancements submission should be demanded to Aleph
PWG
3) NERS database is shared by IGeLU and ELUNA
4) IGeLU members can vote on enhancements submitted by ELUNA
5) In IGeLU enhancement cycle, the enhancements already accepted
by ELUNA are removed from voting
6) Each member has 100 points for voting
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Voting for 2013 Enhancements
IGeLU Aleph on NERS https://ners.igelu.org
Voting opens October 13, 2013
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Conference planning
• Conference committee ≠ PWG
• Monthly conference calls, hundreds of emails
• Google Docs for collaboration
• Late changes and very late changes
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Conference planning
• Aleph track Berlin 2013
• Networked GUI scenarios,
• Systems merge,
• Aleph Direct experiences,
• ARC report studio,
• copy-specific information in Aleph and Primo
• Q&A
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Conference planning
• Aleph in Alma
• SaaS instead of local installation
• from pilots to regular migration
• do we (want to) find our Aleph workflow?
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Nominations and Voting for PWG members
Acquisitions/Serials (EDI)
Systems Administration
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Enhancements approved in 2012/2013
1)
40 enhancements were submitted for first voting cycle
2)
The 15 most voted enhancements were selected for second
voting cycle
3)
The 7 most voted enhancements were selected and sent to
ExLibris to be implemented in v22
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Q&A
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Question 1
We are running on ALEPH 21 with COBOL5 and rts32 is the main
routine for aleph server processes and our platforms are 64-bit
machines since long time.
1)
Why can't we run rts64 instead of rts32 and take full
advantage of our 64-bit machines?
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Question 2
The enhancements in Aleph 21 for more scalability (e.g. multi server
topology, splitting of UE_01 in multiple processes) were really good
things for big installations. However there are still some vital parts in
the system, which must also be scalable. If, for example, the UE_21
can not handle the same amount of data as the UE01, there will
inevitably be problems of acceptance concerning the use of Primo
1)
When ue_21 job be able to run multiple processes, like
ue_01?
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Question 3
1)
Will be mandatory to re-index Aleph when migrating from
v21 to v22 an there are other major time-consuming steps in
the upgrade?
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Question 4
1)
The logical "and" must be used to search several keywords
in SRU search. When be available a version to use keyword
search without "and"?
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Question 5
Session 4.1 shows the full benefits on TCO for libraries running the
Aleph GUI on a Windows Terminal Server.
1)
When Exlibris plan to certify Aleph GUI for 64-bits windows
server (2008 and 2012), granting support for users who want
to use it?