Re: Y2K Blowup

In a message dated 1/13/99 5:01:10 PM Central Standard Time, asingh@kode.net
writes:

> Of Glenn Gunderman
>  Sent:        Wednesday, January 13, 1999 1:36 PM
>  To:  BPCS-L@midrange.com
>  Subject:     Y2K Blowup
>  
>  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.
>  
By the way, the Financials Helpline actually has BMRs for some releases for
this problem, which does change the field holding the value of 99+1 to a 3
digit field (so the result is 100). You can order the version 4.0 BMRs and
just retrofit the changes to your code. It isn't a Y2K fix really, but it is a
workaround for this one year. What is everyone waiting for? If you aren't
already testing some Y2K version of BPCS to upgrade to, you are behind.

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