Re: ADK upgrade run times + CHGCENGEN

Hi Bernard,

What upgrade are your referring to before the switch on the CHGCENGEN

Oludare


----- Original Message -----
From: "Bernard Burchell" <burchelb@connexus.net.au>
To: <BPCS-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 16, 1999 2:54 AM
Subject: Re: ADK upgrade run times + CHGCENGEN


> I've been informed that functions %NOD and %CTD also need to be checked -
> they have a problem with 6 digit dates.  *EDATE also has to be checked
> (don't know what this function does).  So I've updated the scan program
and
> re-attached it.
>
> This is for user-modified programs only.  BPCS original programs don't use
> these functions.
>
>
> >---------------------
> >CHGCENGEN
> >---------------------
> >
> >Once you've done an upgrade you will need to switch on the century
> >generation flag to make generated programs Y2K compliant.  For some
reason
> >the default is 'N'.  To do this:
> >
> >ADDLIBLE ASSETO
> >CHGCENGEN            +  F4 to prompt
> >then change the 'Enhance century Generation (GENERATE)' parameter to 'Y',
> >and press Enter.
> >
> >You then need to find all the programs that use the century conversion
> >functions: %CMD, %DMC, %MDC, %CJL and recompile them.  This is difficult
to
> >do with Query and SQL because of the multi-membered files involved and
> >because % is used as a wild-string.  So I wrote a quick-n-dirty RPG
program
> >(attached) which did the trick.  My apologies for the indicator usage.
> >
> >Bernard Burchell.
>

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