Re: ADK upgrade run times + CHGCENGEN

Thanks Bernard,

Here we are on OS400 V3R7M0 and BPCS 6.00.02 Jan Cum, AS/SET ADK 6.00.04.

We have been trying to bring our environment up to date for Y2K relevant and
not cosmetic. Hopefully, we move to BPCS 6.1 next year.

Oludare

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bernard Burchell" <burchelb@connexus.net.au>
To: <BPCS-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Friday, December 17, 1999 3:59 AM
Subject: Re: ADK upgrade run times + CHGCENGEN


> Hi Oludare,
>
> I was going from 6.0.01 to 6.1.00.  From what I understand 6.0.02 is not
> century compliant, but 6.0.04 is.  So I had a look at the 6.0.04 Net
Change
> document and found the actual list of functions to check for.
>
> I should also have checked for the longhand versions like
> %CENYR_MONTH_DAY, %NUMBER_OF_DAYS etc.  Apparently *EDATE is a
> screen/report keyword that shows e.g. 'Dec 17, 1999' - I should have
scaned
> the Screen and Report layouts for this.
>
> So I've updated that program again and re-attached it.  Hopefully it's
> complete this time!
>
>
> From: oludare <oludare@ix.netcom.com>
> Date: Friday, December 17, 1999 3:46 AM
>
>
> >Hi Bernard,
> >
> >What upgrade are your referring to before the switch on the CHGCENGEN
> >
> >Oludare
> >
> >
> >From: "Bernard Burchell" <burchelb@connexus.net.au>
> >Sent: Thursday, December 16, 1999 2:54 AM
> >
> >
> >> 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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