Re: Year 2000 Question...Again!!

[cmassoglia@xxxxxxxxxxx (Charlie Massoglia)]

>Steve Raisor wrote:
>> 
>> I know this has probably been ask, but what effect would setting the
>> date ahead on a AS/400.  The end users at our company want to see the
>> effects of the year 2000 on our software and want the IS department to
>> set our backup/development machine to January, 2000.  The production
>> machine is mimixed to our backup machine and the programmers use this
>> machine for development.
>>
>
>Just a few things that come quickly to mind:
>
>1) If you run the IBM cleanup (CHGCLNUP) you could delete all your
>current joblogs, OV/400 Calendar entries, etc.
>
>2) If you use the IBM Security Toolkit you could 'expire' all your user
>profiles.
>
>3) If you aren't on V3R2 or V3R7 (or don't have the PTF's for Year 2000
>applied to V3R1 or V3R6) and you use EXPDATE on your tape saves, you
>could end up writing over your unexpired backups without warning.
>
>4) Your software could do all kinds of evil things,
>Expire customers credit limits, purge history, create bad journal
>entries, etc. etc.
>-- 
>...Neil Palmer                                      AS/400~~~~~      

After you re-IPL with today's date, won't you have to save and restore your
job scheduler object to reset the date back from 2000 to 1997?


Charlie Massoglia, Massoglia Technical Consulting, Inc.
PO Box 1065, Okemos, MI 48854, USA
517-676-9700  Fax: 517-676-1006  EMAIL: cmassoglia@voyager.net


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