[Koha] z3950 searches failures

[Matthew Malthouse]

Hi,

I've been using Koha for about 18 hours now.  Yup, installed last 
night.  :-)  And I've got some question about publicly accessible z39.50 
servers for MARC records.

First, looking through the archives I see a suggestion that a list of 
publicly available might be complied.  Has this happened?  If so a pointer 
would be gratefully received.

Side note:  is there any effort at a coordinated free catalogue like the 
freecddb.org for music CD's?  This is a project solely for myself and 
there's no way I can afford to pay out usd 500 for a subscription.

Second I'm frustrated by the searches I have been able to do.

The Library of Congress is already in the install.  I've found and 
configured British Library, Library of Scotland and a "free trial" at 
Itsmark.com.

So far I'm really disappointed at the level of response.  I've tried 6 
books by ISBN (which is the obvious way as I've a bar code reader to input 
the number) 2 US and 4 UK and 2 by author name.

The author search found only one (and didn't return the book I had) from 
the LOC.

ISBN search also found only one - wish some humour it was the O'Reilly HTML 
Pocket Reference.

Here's the log entry for that good result:

     Processing isbn="1565925793" at 1 z3950.loc.gov:7090 voyager (4 forks)
     Q: @attr 1=7 "1565925793"
       SPEED: 1  z3950.loc.gov:7090 done 1
         z3950.loc.gov:7090 done.

However I have a bunch - in fact hundreds - of errors for the same search 
on the Itsmark server:

     Processing isbn="1565925793" at 2 z3950.itsmarc.com:5666 LCCurrentZ (2 
forks)
     Q: @attr 1=7 "1565925793"
     ERROR: Can't call method "option" on an undefined value 
at     /var/www/library/koha/intranet/scripts/z3950daemon/processz3950queue 
line 163, <KC> line 22.

         z3950.itsmarc.com:5666 done.

That log is 3387 lines long.

I can't see what value is "undefined".  Can anyone suggest something?

Cheers,

Matthew