Re: Y2K Blowup

[Mindaugas Bielskus <mindaugs@xxxxxxx>]

Glenn Gunderman wrote:
> 
> Don't know about anyone else but we just had our first Y2K blowup.
> 
> We're still on a very old version (2.1.07) but I thought I had 11.5
> months to go.
> 
> Trying to run some reports in FRS, the year validation tests to make
> sure that the reporting year is either last year, this year or next
> year.  So as of today, last year is 98, this year is 99 and next year is
> 00.  Since 99 is not less than 00, it fails the screen validation and
> won't submit the report.
> 
> So I commented out the validation to get the accounting people their
> reports.
> 
> Anyone else have anything to report?
> 
> Glenn Gundermann
> Ronald A. Chisholm Limited
> Toronto
> 
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I also had to solve that problem today.  Look in GLD700, the test is
pretty simple to detect.  The fix took about an .5 hour to hour of my
time.  If you need help, email me.

Mindaugas
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