Re: Tape Expiration Date and Y2K Question...

Great !

That's what I was hopping, and yep - I'm coding ALL of my stuff as 4 digit year
now. Not too bad once you get used to it and have learned (finally) some GREAT
things along the way !

Thanks Bruce.

Chuck

bvining@VNET.IBM.COM wrote:

> Chuck,
>
> All CL commands will accept either a 2-digit or a 4-digit date when
> working with fields defined as DATE.  If a 2-digit year is used, the
> system assumes a range of 1940 to 2039.  If a 4-digit year then the
> explicit date is used. So for your current test purposes the two values
> 11/03/98 and 11/03/1998 are logically identical; as would be 10/13/02
> and 10/13/2002.  The two digit year should be avoided in new
> development but is provided for upward compatibility with previous
> releases; and should work satisfactorily for just under 4 decades come
> January 1 2000.
>
> Bruce Vining
>
> >
> >Hi folks,
> >
> >HOW is the system going to handle the Tape Expiration date and the Y2K ?
> >
> >i.e. today (10/13/98) I run and save, a tape is used and it (the save
> >CLP) calculates a 21 day EXPDATE it and comes up with 11/03/98 so 110398
> >is used as the EXPDATE on the ensuing SAVLIB command.
> >
> >I just tried a SAVLIB with EXPDATE of 11031998 and it worked OK (?)
> >
> >I am TRYING to make sure MY CLP, etc. are Y2K ready... What am I to make
> >of this ?
> >
> >I sort of DOUBT that IBM is using MMDDYYYY on this but it worked and it
> >DOES check for invalid dates and MMDDYYYY does PASS !!!
> >
> >Am OK to keep using MMDDYY or do I change to MMDDYYYY and IS this going
> >to be OK ?
> >
> >Thanks !
> >
> >Chuck
> >
>
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