RE: AS/400 Y2K bug

[Neil Palmer <NeilP@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Marty,

Just a comment here, and maybe this has already been done but it's just 
not in the area you work in.  You mention it's a known problem and the 
fix is built into a future release.  As it's a Y2K bug problem this fix 
should automatically trigger a PTF to be created for all Y2K compliant 
releases whether or not one of our Midrange-L colleagues in Japan opens 
a support call which would to trigger an APAR.  In fact, shouldn't 
someone in Rochester (whoever discovered the problem) already have 
opened an APAR internally against V3R2/V3R7/V4R1/V4R2 & V4R3 for this ?

If not I'm sure we'd like to know why it would take a customer to 
complain specifically before an APAR was opened for a known Y2K bug.


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-----Original Message-----
From:   keech@VNET.IBM.COM [SMTP:keech@VNET.IBM.COM]
Sent:   Tuesday, September 15, 1998 4:20 PM
To:     MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject:        AS/400 Y2K bug

Ken wrote:

>
>Thank you for your information. Would you please inform to
>mailing list when the PTF is GA?
>
>keech@VNET.IBM.COM wrote
>in <199809151402.JAA11121@uucphost.mcs.net>
>on Tue, 15 Sep 98 09:01:23 CDT
>
>>We've got a fix put into
>>the base of a 'future' release, and are working on a PTF for existing
>>releases.
>P.S.
>If my English is too bad to your understand, point out any errors to 
me.
>Thanks.
>--
>Ken Yamasaki
>Yokohama Kanagawa,JAPAN
>ML/400=>http://www.tama.or.jp/~yamaken/ml400/
>(in Japanese only)

Ken,
Your English is very understandable.  Much better than my Japanese.

I am afraid I cannot supply you with a PTF number.  The error is not
in my code, and there has not been an APAR opened for this problem.
Mitsuhiro should contact his level 2 support to report the problem
and open an APAR.  At that point the PTFs can be generated for the
proper releases.

I'm sorry if I misled anyone.  I can't take the place of normal level
2 support.

Sorry,
Marty Keech IBM AS400 APPC, Payment Server, 'n Stuff

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