Re: Year 2000: Percentage of impact on AS/400 applications

At 12:44 PM 5/27/97 +0000, you wrote:
>At 01:22 PM 5/24/97 -0400, you wrote:
>>At 08:32 AM 5/23/97 +0000, you wrote:
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>Is there any published figure for the percentage of impact of Y2K on AS/400
>>>applications? 
>>>
>>>I understand that the percent varies with applications, OS level etc...but
>>>was just trying to find out if there was any average/trend.
>>>
>>>Thanks,
>>>Mani
>>========================
>>Sorry  there is no standard or average  percentage for the AS/400.  It
>>seems to  vary  by industry as to the  amount of (%) LoC  that is required
>>to be changed.   Atypically it is 4- 6%. More intensive industries like
>>insurance scale upwards to 11% plus. In any case  most of your programs
>>will be changed.  
>
>I agree with Glenn, however you should beware of any systems that have
>dates as file indexes.  I recently reviewed a system where the major files
>all had dates as keys, and that system had a 100% participation.
>
>
>
>Al Barsa, Jr. - Account for Midrange-L
>Barsa Consulting, LLC. 
>400 > 390
>
>Phone: 914-251-9400
>Fax:   914-251-9406
>
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I'd like  to take Al's thoughts a little further. 
As  can  be seen form Al's experience- design can increase the  number of
programs that will have to be touched and tested.  This just  proves the
LoC is a  relatively meaningless order of magnitude of work effort or scope
by itself.  There is much more to  it..

Agreed  don't fool with dates in indexes. 

Be careful of the Ad-Hoc User's requirements remain natural and normal.
Mess with these and you can compound your problems.

Many dates require a context  meaning before windowing or some other non
ambiguous dating schema can be applied.   Careful

Please as  the conversions take place leave level check  at yes.

Glenn
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