Re: F35 - Y2K

[Gary L Peskin <garyp@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You might want to check out

  <http://www.softmall.ibm.com/as400/year2000/y2sysdat.html>

Gary


nevillekingdom@bardaust.com.au wrote:
> 
> We have an F35 CISC box and would like to set the system date to beyond 2000 
>as
> part of our testing.
> As this would be a controlled test no users would be on the system. 
>Journaling,
> Job Schedulers, Performance Monitors and user access would all be disabled.
> 
> I have read an article in Midrange Computing  Feb 1998 by Ted Holt that 
>states a
> full system backup should be taken and when the date is set back to current 
>that
> a full restore must be performed. We are not doing an IPL and this restore 
>seems
> a little extreme every time we want to do live testing with our test
> environment.
> 
> Does anyone have any experience or suggestions with the system date or on 
>having
> to do a full restore
> 
> Neville Kingdom,
> Bard Australia
> nevillekingdom@bardaust.com.au
> 
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