RE: F35 - Y2K

[Tim McCarthy <twmac@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Al,
I've never used one of the Y2K tools so I can't comment on that issue, but
I don't know who told you that only IBM can have commands with variable
length parms; I've created quite a few examples. As for "faking out"
RTVSYSVAL, it's really not that hard to do.  

At 08:59 AM 8/13/98 -0400, you wrote:
>
>I don't possibly see how these products could work reliably.  Dates come
>from many different places to your application, and it's impossible (in my
>opinion) to get them all.  Clearly, the RTVSYSVAL command can't be faked
>out, I've tried before for other system values.  (Only IBM has the ability
>to have commands with RTNVALs that are retrieved in different lengths.)
>
>I downloaded the TVS Murthy demo, and it blew it.  I message for support,
>and was informed that none was available.
>
>Al
>

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