Re: pdm vs year 2000

At 06:00 AM 5/23/97 +0000, you wrote:
>
>On May 22 1997 Neil Palmer wrote:
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>>All 3 PTF's can be applied immediately.
>>After these are applied, the date range on PDM subset will be 01/01/28
>>to 12/31/27.
>
>Neil,
>
>This is a fix? An idea why they've broken their convention of using 1940 to 
>2039?
>
>Dave Kahn - Tengizchevroil, Kazakstan
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>e-mail:  kahn@tco.infonet.com       (until June 11th)
>         dkahn@cix.compulink.co.uk  (from  June 12th)
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 If it is true they likely changed methods of implementation and this is a
natural by product.

What  you are seeing  will happen in  V3R1  or V3R6  Were data and  time
are tracked in units of 1024 Microseconds from August 23, 1928
12:03:06.315. ( Why - that one here who knows).  The different  start  date
is interesting. 

 Fixed windowing solutions are only a  temporary imvestment - Who  knows
what IBM's master plan is for AS/400 software before 2027?  I have to
believe  there will be a solution  for their software, Application and
other software maybeeach indiviaul instalations'  problem to size up and
make happen without incident.

I expect Year 2000  will hold many such surprises for everyones code.




Glenn
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