Re: F35 - Y2K

[DAsmussen@xxxxxxx]

Al,

In a message dated 98-08-13 11:07:41 EDT, you write:

> 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 don't either.  We wrote programs to "intercept" the BPCS date API's to
handle date changes in a 24-hour production environment when midnight was
crossed.  We can't even use CHGJOB DATE(yesterday) to test our code...

My $.02,

Dean Asmussen
Enterprise Systems Consulting, Inc.
Fuquay-Varina, NC  USA
E-Mail:  DAsmussen@aol.com

"If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice." -- Rush
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