[Evergreen-catalogers] Setting to generate an alternate TCN when importing a z39.50

[Sarah Childs]

Elaine, for libraries that import from multiple sources, with non-OCLC
TCNs, you can have two totally different records with the same TCN. Imagine
you couldn't import a record because the Evergreen database ID conflicted
with a database ID from a different system.

I don't recall a feature where you could automatically generate a TCN
(maybe there was something like that with batch import?)  But there were
previous versions where you could edit the existing TCN in the flat text
editor, which was really handy when you run into this problem.

On Fri, Feb 24, 2023 at 12:58 PM Elaine Hardy via Evergreen-catalogers <
evergreen-catalogers at list.evergreen-ils.org> wrote:

> I don't recall this "feature".
>
> Why would you add a duplicate record to your database?
>
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> On Fri, Feb 24, 2023 at 10:42 AM Mackenzie Johnson via
> Evergreen-catalogers <evergreen-catalogers at list.evergreen-ils.org> wrote:
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>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> One of the staff in my unit has had an issue with z39.50 imports that
>> match against a pre-existing TCN (and not attempting a merge/overlay), as
>> I've documented on Launchpad here:
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/2008488
>>
>> As being provided an option to automatically generate a TCN when
>> otherwise faced with a match apparently used to be a feature, I am
>> wondering if it is possible that this functionality is hiding behind a
>> setting somewhere -- I was looking in the documentation and couldn't really
>> find anything, but maybe there's somebody out there who is using 3.8.0 and
>> is still able to use this functionality when importing z39.50 records.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Mackenzie Johnson, MLIS
>> (he/his/him)
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>> University of Prince Edward Island
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