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

On Monday, August 24, 1998 3:46 AM, Rob Dixon [SMTP:rob.dixon@erros.co.uk] 
wrote:
> 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!

Our legacy code uses 2 digit years, so we have an issue to address.

> 2.  All the necessary work has been done in our installations and we
> have moved on to more interesting problems?

New development was designed with 4 digit years in mind, so we have less 
of an issue with being compliant than we have of proving compliance.

> 3.  We are working flat out to solve the problems and have not got spare
> time to post messages
> about it?

Our legacy customers are being addressed as we speak.  We feel that there 
is not going to be an immense impact on our customer businesses.

> Is anyone prepared to admit that they still have a serious problem?

We've begun Y2K conversion/testing, and during the course of this work 
we've been able to re-inforce our gut feeling that there isn't a huge 
impact on our legacy customers.  Y2K testing is ongoing with our 
Synon-generated product, and very few surprises have emerged; mostly from 
importing data from sources outside our software.

Nobody I know is resurrecting their bomb shelter, although we get the 
occasionally hysterical report in the newspapers about the impending 
disaster.

Buck Calabro
Commsoft, Albany, NY
mailto:mcalabro@commsoft.net

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