Re: 30. - 31.12.99

[MacWheel99@xxxxxxx]

>  From:    haluska@biotika.sk (Haluska Peter)
>  
>  Hi folks,

We are on BPCS 405 CD on AS/400 V4R3 now model 170 & no, we are not current 
on Y2K upgrades for IBM or SSA ... it can become a full time job just working 
with that stuff & still fall behind.

>  Short Description:  On OS/400 screen (eg. in wrkactjob) in top of right
>  corner of screen is system date 31.12.99 00:07:00
>  On BPCS screen is 30/12/99 0:07:00 in this moment.
                                                      
>  Can You explain it to me? I need to do month end close now on 31.12.99.
>  
>  Thanks
>  
>  Peter Haluska

I do not believe you have a problem, just a matter of unfamiliarity with 
getting the date you want.

IBM system date & time is not neccessarily the same as SSA job date ... but 
the time should be the same & it is.

1. In your SYS800 some place you set your company date format for BPCS as the 
format DAY MONTH YEAR ... while in IBM it is showing MONTH DAY YEAR.  There 
are some places you can futz with what IBM shows ... I do not remember if you 
can do that in WRKSYSVAL or not.

2. When you sign onto BPCS, it has the date from IBM, but if you stay signed 
on after midnight, depending on what program you are in, sometimes it 
remembers the date from when you originally signed on, without the clock 
advancing to the new date.

If this would not mess up anything you are doing ... from the screen where 
you quote Dec 30 ... sign that off then back on again ... is it still 1 day 
old or is it now Dec 31?  You probably never saw this before if you were not 
working through the wee hours.

3.  There are several dates "in the system."

Many programs get a date & time from some place, but do not advance the date 
continuously with user actions, so the screen header info can get out of sync 
with IBM reality.

There is the SYSTEM date which ties to clock advancing from last IPL, or if 
you changed the IBM date via WRKSYSVAL ... many programs get their date from 
this.

There is the JOB date which starts out being the SYSTEM date at time of 
sign-on, and can be changed various ways ... user can CHGJOB DATE(whatever) 
and some programs might change the date.

Al Macintyre  ©¿©
Y2K is not the end of my universe, but a re-boot of that old chinese curse.
The road to success is always under construction.
Sanity is the playground of the unimaginative.
Every software improvement comes with some new challenges.
When in doubt, read the manual.
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