Re: Maintaining current BMR's

Rick,

In a message dated 12/30/99 4:24:16 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
RickCarter@holley.com writes:

> Does anyone have any break through ideas on how to best stay on top of the
>  BMR issue with SSA.  For instance, on 12/29/99 the most recent passed BMR's
>  for version 6.1 included roughly 194 BMR's for the AS400.  How in the world
>  does one monitor and keep the most current mods applied to their system.
>  At this point, we typically don't worry about a fix until we encounter the
>  problem but with all the Y2k issues, etc, I've been monitoring OGS more
>  closely and it's scary to see this many BMR's for one time period.  Is
>  there a proper way to deal with this other than by trial and error or
>  better yet run and fix .

A little late to get concerned, but you have to monitor those that you don't 
already have.  For example, we received a Y2K BMR pack for 6.1.00 with a 
"mastering" date of 11/15.  When I ordered an update two weeks ago, there 
were 15 Y2K BMR's that we didn't have according to OGS.  No "break through", 
just keep up with what has been issued compared to what you have.

If you have modified programs, _DO NOT_ go by SSA's "Affected Objects" list 
in order to retrofit BMRs to your existing programs -- I'm working even now 
to retrofit production BMRs to modified 6.0.02 objects because SSA sent us 
new objects in the 6.0.02 Y2K BMR pack that weren't in their "Affected 
Objects" list >8(.  No, I am _NOT_ A HAPPY MAN at this point.  I thought that 
I had everything retrofitted weeks ago.  We're not going live on 6.1.00 until 
late January.  Unfortunately, we are already _LIVE_ on 6.0.02.  If not for a 
difference between the version of 6.0.02 that we're running now and 6.1.00, I 
never would have found these "missing" programs.  If my client chooses to 
pursue litigation against SSA in this instance, I think that they would have 
a case.  Errrrrrrr!

Regards,

Dean Asmussen
Enterprise Systems Consulting, Inc.
Fuquay-Varina, NC  USA
E-mail:  DAsmussen@aol.com

"There are no shortcuts to any place worth going." -- Beverly Sills
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