RE: F35 - Y2K

[Neil Palmer <npalmer@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

No direct experience, but a few suggestions.

As an alternate to changing the system date (or maybe a first step
before a full scale test) you may want to check out one of the date
simulators available that can return a different system date to your
jobs.  There is one called Simdate you can buy (it was mentioned on this
list previously, but I've lost the contact information), and there was
one offered for free on this list recently (again, don't have the
original message, but the person offering the free DATEVM date
simulation code was TVS Murthy at tvsm@netdoor.com ).

If (when) you go the full blown 'change the real system date' test I
would strongly advise TWO system backups (you never know when the
dreaded 'Media Error on device TAPxx' message will appear during a
restore).  
You could save yourself some time here by doing SAVSTG and then the
RSTSTG.  Should be MUCH quicker than a normal save of the entire system
followed by a complete scratch reload.  Of course, you won't be able to
restore individual files from the backup.




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> -----Original Message-----
> From: nevillekingdom@bardaust.com.au
> [SMTP:nevillekingdom@bardaust.com.au]
> Sent: Monday, August 10, 1998 8:37 PM
> To:   MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject:      F35 - Y2K
> 
> 
> 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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