Re: AS/400 Year 2000 Case Studies

Guess the temporary &  resoursecomments are a matter of priorities or
another view. The old  half full // half empty story.

Interesting  concluding remarks on remediation methodology - even for a
short 4 year ROI.

"" Also, we learned that in some cases, despite the overhead of recompiling
files and all dependent programs, and the overhead of mapping the old
date-type fields to the new physical file date fields, it would have been
more efficient to change some of our date fields in our files to yyyymmdd
format. But overall, we felt our standard solutions met our objectives
perfectly considering that the expected lifetime of many of our tools is
less than four years.""

Glenn
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At 02:37 PM 1/10/98 +0000, you wrote:
>Below is excerpt from Case Study followed by link to article.
>
>I thought it was rather odd that the article states "Due to lack of
>resource, we planned to hire a temporary programmer to work for a period
>of 9 months"...
>
>This is IBM Rochester for cryin out loud...
>
>Oh well, interesting read...
>
>Jim Powell
>Senior Associate Programmer at IBM Rochester
>Information Technology for AS/400 Production Support
>(support of AS/400s that support the Rochester Site)
>Contact by phone: 507-253-2153
>Contact by e-mail: James_Powell@vnet.ibm.com
>
>Due to lack of resource, we planned to hire a temporary programmer to
>work for a period of 9
>months. The temporary programmer was to work half time on the year 2000
>compatibility
>project. We trained the programmer on how to use our programming process
>including
>documentation procedures, code review procedures, our change control
>process, and our
>program implementation process.
>
>We developed our strategy by first identifying where dates were used.
>This was to be done using
>various AS/400 string search tools such as FNDSTRPDM and QUSRTOOLS. We
>scanned our
>production source files including QDDSSRC, QCLSRC, QRPGSRC, QCSRC,
>QCMDSRC,
>and QPASSRC. Also, we scanned any source members that were currently in
>development. We
>used search strings such as 'DAT', 'CVTDAT', 'YY', 'MM', 'DD', 'QDAT',
>'CENT', 'DAY',
>'MONTH', and 'YEAR'.
>
>
>See URL  http://www.softmall.ibm.com/as400/y2kcase.htm
>
>--
>Jim Welsh
>http://www.netcom.com/~jimwelsh/welcome/welcome.html
>AS/400 Programmer/Analyst
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