Re: Y2K War

In a message dated 9/15/99 1:17:38 PM Central Daylight Time, 
MacWheel99@aol.com writes:

> Some consultant (hint hint) could make some bucks or PR by doing the work 
>  that SSA should have done in organizing the data that we need so that it 
is 
>  intelligible in one place - list all the Y2K fixes forward of each of the 
>  BPCS Versions that were "sold" to us by SSA as being Y2K compliant, except 
>  for these fixes, .....
. . . . NT has to be at fix pack 4.0 to be Y2K, Windows 95 is full of Y2K 
bugs needing patches here and there, various office programs are not Y2K 
compliant, IBM programs have had Y2K fixes and the list goes on. They were 
also "supposedly Y2K" when they were sold. 

Many of the fixes on the OGS list, if you actually look at them are minor, 
some are cosmetic and some on the list are not even Y2K fixes at all if you 
read the full descriptions. Some are even just help text changes. A few 
actually are important to get if you have or use that program. And if you 
have stayed current with cumes, there really are not many fixes left to 
obtain. I think I counted needing 5 BMRs more (not all 'A' showstoppers 
either) if you are current on 6.0.04 with the July 1999 cume. 

Also, the new version of the spreadsheet does have more detailed views and 
information that the one you appear to have viewed and can better assist you 
in deciding what to order. It has 3 different views of the BMRs for a given 
release.
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