Fwd: BOUNCE bpcs-l@midrange.com: Non-member submission from [<rich.wright@...

[DAsmussen <DAsmussen@xxxxxxx>]

In a message dated 98-03-02 19:45:33 EST, owner-bpcs-l@midrange.com writes:

> The company I work for closed it's Fiscal Year 98 on February 28, 1998.
>  When we tried to update the period master (GLD105) with the new fiscal year
>  for 99, the program indicated that this was an invalid fiscal year. I
>  contacted the help line and found that this problem was fixed in version
>  4.06 but not in version 4.04. The 4.06 fixes involve fields that do not
>  exist in version 4.04 and the help line sent me the 4.06 code and sad that
>  is the best they could do. We are also in the process of testing the
>  version 4.05CD to solve our century dating problem and have found that it
>  has the same problem with the period table maintenance. I scanned and found
>  25 other BPCS programs that reference the 'PYEAR' field in the period
>  master and have not yet analyzed them for a negative impact. I have also
>  talked with SSA's manager of technical service and he advised that we
>  externally update the period master with the FY99 dates and that seems to
>  be working for now.
>  
>  I hope this information will be helpful for those under V4 that will start
>  FY99 this year. I would appreciate hearing from anyone who has encountered
>  this problem.