RE: Year 2K - how to shake down your system

Actually,

IBM's ByPass 2000 product does handle things when the date is in multiple 
fields. Basically, from what I understand, ByPass 2k works with "buffer" 
positions. It only wants to know the location of the YEAR within the date 
value. So if you tell it the YEAR is in position 1 of a 2-digit field, it 
says "okay, I can handle that". I don't really see what there are so many 
issues with the multiple formats. It is really just a simple correction. 
The bigger issue, in my mind is completeness. That is identifying every 
place a 2-digit year is used, and expanding it, and altering the CALC specs 
to work on the 4-digit year. These are all things Bypass 2000 does well. 
But if you're looking for performance in a conversion tool, Bypass is not 
the one you want. But how many times are you going to do a Y2K conversion 
anyway? <g>

We like ByPass, but the other tools are okay too. The products that run on 
the PC-side of things, however, sort of scare me. I don't know if there are 
hidden issues, but with my contemporary experience with Client Access/400, 
I don't think I want that head ache. Perhaps if you're connected with 
TCP/IP, then using a PC-based product would be okay.

Bob Cozzi


On Friday, August 15, 1997 12:20 PM, ConnectY2K@aol.com 
[SMTP:ConnectY2K@aol.com] wrote:
> In a message dated 97-08-15 11:23:38 EDT, you write:
>
> << Subj:       Re: Year 2K - how to shake down your system
>  Date:        97-08-15 11:23:38 EDT
>  From:        hambergv@goldengate.net (Vern Hamberg)
>  Sender:      mcsnet!midrange.com!midrange-l-owner@Mcs.Net,
> owner-midrange-l@midrange.com
>  Reply-to:    MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
>  To:  MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
>
>  At 08:04 PM 8/14/97 -0700, you wrote:
>  >DAsmussen@aol.com wrote:
>  >>
>  >
>  >> Sounds like you've actually got a solid base, but you know the
> application.
>  >>  I'd say take any 6, (maybe 7) or 8 digit/character field and examine
> it's
>  >> manipulation.

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