[iBorrow] New iBorrow Build Update

[Al Carlson]

IBorrow Users,

If you've already opened the URSA client and poked around in it, you've probably muttered to yourself, "This new build sure looks a lot like the old build."
That's because it is the old build.
Our weekend testing revealed a deal breaker, so we had SirsiDynix restore the old build Sunday evening.

We'd hoped that our testing would be just a formality, and that we'd sign off on the new version by Saturday noon and go back to Christmas shopping.
But we ran into a problem Friday night that the SirsiDynix engineers were not able to diagnose and fix.
Not that they didn't try.  We caught Holly at the SirsiDynix Christmas party Friday evening, and she had Keith Poole in on the problems before the first round of canapés was gone.  We all continued testing the next day, but by Saturday afternoon, it was clear that this was not a trivial coding issue.  Peter Fripp restored the build we've been using late on Sunday afternoon.

The problem we ran into was a variation on one we've seen before:  declining requests.  About a third of the time, we would get a rude and cryptic error message, when we tried to decline a request.  We hoped to find the pattern behind the problem.  Maybe something like, "When the requesting library is their own Lender Of Last Resort and they are set to unmediated, declining will fail."  Nahh!  Nothing that easy.  I had three requests from the same library lined up in Fill Loan in the iBorrow Training database.  The first declined fine.  The second failed.  The third worked.  Go figure.

So, Holly, Keith, Peter, and Aaron will put the new build up on the rack (Think mechanic, not inquisition) this morning, tear it apart, and see if they can find the cause of this nasty bug.  You will keep using the build you know and have grown to love.  And we'll let you know when we're ready to try again.

Questions?  You know who to call.

Al Carlson
System Administrator
Tampa Bay Library Consortium
1202 Tech Blvd. Suite 202
Tampa, FL  33619
813-622-8252 ext. 223

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