RE: Y2K problems - Armageddon or Much Ado about Nothing?

> Assuming that the members of this mailing list represent typical AS/400
> sites, is this apparent lack of interest because -
>
> 1.  Our systems have, from the beginning, anticipated the problem?  This
> should be the answer!
>
> 2.  All the necessary work has been done in our installations and we
> have moved on to more interesting problems?
>
> 3.  We are working flat out to solve the problems and have not got spare
> time to post messages about it?
>
> Is anyone prepared to admit that they still have a serious problem?

All of the clients that I've been at in the past 3 yrs have addressed and/or
completed the Y2K project for their AS/400 systems. All will be compliant by
the end of the 1998 (and in plenty of time as they have no long range date
issues). One client still has a remote machine running V3R1 that I've been
pestering to upgrade to V4R3. That should happen fairly soon. Very few though
are taking the big picture approach that Charlie talked about. There are many
surveys coming through from vendors, suppliers, customers, etc asking about
Y2K compliance. Only one company had a survey go out to the middle and
upper managers in the company discussing things like phone equipment,
heating, cooling, security systems, PCs, etc. I expect the biggest problem for
these companies will be from PCs that cannot handle the year 00 and
vendors/suppliers/manufacturers that miss due dates.

Joe Teff
Information Technology Consultant
IBM Certified Specialist - AS/400 RPG Programmer
Quality Data Systems
Minneapolis, MN

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