Re: Year 2000

[Mark Lazarus <mlazarus@xxxxxxxx>]

Glen,

>>>> Doing a Y2K conversion AND converting to ILE is a bit ambitious, don't 
>>>> you think?  

>>>  Not really.  I'm referring to doing the basic conversion that OS/400
>>> provides.  The idea here is to leverage the investment you are making into
>>> making the DB more robust, easier to maintain and use in the future.  Many
>>> applications use dates as a pivotal part of the proceessing logic.  The
>>> conversion to ILE is really a simple conversion to RPG IV.
>> 
>>>AND in order to  use these NEW functions one must make changes to
>>>applications in the form of ????  Then Test ????
>>
>> RPG IV makes most of the date manipulation tasks so easy that it would be a
>>shame to pass up the opportunity to do it correctly.
>>
>> -mark
>>
>============================================
>Mark,
>  
>were are you at  now with your Y2K project ?
>Can you say how big  and or complex it is at  this moment?
>( with some  parameters given)

 Actually, it's a non-project.  I was doing research for a prospective client.

>First  assume:
>  you  do nothing but straight convert
>         - You can project  being done and fully tested by (date)

>Second  place ILE in the project(keep all resources the same) the new date
>is?

>Now the final costs are for each?
>benefits?

>If it  flies sell it  to the  person writingyour company's checks.
>Do let me know  how this  figures for your case. 

 I believe that if your long term plans are to futher develop the company's
DP assets, then adding date data types to your DB is a positive strategic
move (vs. strictly a defensive one w/ little additional value).

 Doing a simple conversion to ILE RPG using the simple conversion pgm IBM
is a no-brainer.  The immediate benefit is that you need not specify
compiler options and don't have the RPG/400 limitations regarding date
fileds.  The benefit to the Y2K effort is that the major routines that had
to be done to do date verification and arithmetic is reduced to a bare
minimum.

 This should, in most cases, more than balance out the effort to any
additional work using this method.

 After you are done what are you left with?  A system that has bitten the
bullet on RPG IV and a DB that can more easily use SQL and query products.

 -mark

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