Re: BPCS Y2K

[PaulMmn <PaulMmn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>I was asked by a seminar attendee about a potential Y2K approach for which I
>would appreciate some feedback.  The customer is currently running BPCS
>version 4.4 which is not Y2K enabled.  The have written their own software
>which maniupulates data extraced from BPCS.  They want to leave BPCS as is
>and address any Y2K problems in their own add on software.  They do no
>forecasting in BPCS.  They don't care about sort order of dates on reports.
>They will plug in due dates for invoices.  They never select data across
>multiple years.
>
>To test this methodology, they plan to rent or purchase a new machine to
>which they will load a copy of their software.  They will go through a 1999
>year end close, process transactions in for several months in 2000 doing a
>month end close for each month, wrapping up with a year end close for 2000.
>
>For those of you who know BPCS, is this approach even possible?  Again, the
>customer understands they will have to modify programs which they have
>written themselves to perform such date dependent functions as forecasting.
>The question is what will fail in BPCS, as opposed to not sort properly?
>
>
>Charlie Massoglia, Massoglia Technical Consulting, Inc.


Biggest problem I can see is that if it -doesn't- work, and if their test
takes too long, they won't have enough time to finish an alternative
method...

--Paul E Musselman
PaulMmn@ix.netcom.com


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