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At 12:20 PM 12/16/97 -0500, you wrote:
>Al Barsa, Jr. wrote:
>
>> At 12:42 PM 12/11/97 -0500, you wrote:
>> >Anyone using the IBM Marketed BYPASS2000 tool on RPG code?
>> >
>> >Would like to hear comments/praises/warnings.
>>
>> After some deep searching, we have chose BYPASS2000 as our tool of choice,
>> and we have a project starting at a client now.
>>
>> Problems:
>>
>> 1.      Until last week, it had no data analysis tool (i.e.:  look at
your data,
>> and find the dates, regardless of what kind of field they are in).  IBM did
>> announce a product last week, but it was VERY expensive.  For data analysis
>> we are using a tool from Charlie Massoglia, which is still in the late
>> stages of beta testing.  It looks like it will do the job well, and for the
>> right price.  (Although if I were Charlie, and I saw IBM SpaceShuttle-like
>> pricing for their data analysis tool, I might raise my prices.)
>>
>>
>
>Does this mean it can't find dates in your physical (or logical files),
but can find
>them in program source?
The search tools look for dates in data base files.  The fix-it-tools
(BYPASS/2000) use the results from the search tools to trace the dates
through the source code.

The search tools actually read data, and have parameters to determine % of
good dates, % of bad dates (02/31/97), special values (99/99/99) and zeros.
 There have actually been some weird and perverted people that have put
dates into alpha fields and into other inappropriate fields (9.2 packed!).
The search tools find this stuff.

Al



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