Tape Expiration Date and Y2K Question...

Chuck,

All CL commands will accept either a 2-digit or a 4-digit date when
working with fields defined as DATE.  If a 2-digit year is used, the
system assumes a range of 1940 to 2039.  If a 4-digit year then the
explicit date is used. So for your current test purposes the two values
11/03/98 and 11/03/1998 are logically identical; as would be 10/13/02
and 10/13/2002.  The two digit year should be avoided in new
development but is provided for upward compatibility with previous
releases; and should work satisfactorily for just under 4 decades come
January 1 2000.

Bruce Vining

>
>Hi folks,
>
>HOW is the system going to handle the Tape Expiration date and the Y2K ?
>
>i.e. today (10/13/98) I run and save, a tape is used and it (the save
>CLP) calculates a 21 day EXPDATE it and comes up with 11/03/98 so 110398
>is used as the EXPDATE on the ensuing SAVLIB command.
>
>I just tried a SAVLIB with EXPDATE of 11031998 and it worked OK (?)
>
>I am TRYING to make sure MY CLP, etc. are Y2K ready... What am I to make
>of this ?
>
>I sort of DOUBT that IBM is using MMDDYYYY on this but it worked and it
>DOES check for invalid dates and MMDDYYYY does PASS !!!
>
>Am OK to keep using MMDDYY or do I change to MMDDYYYY and IS this going
>to be OK ?
>
>Thanks !
>
>Chuck
>

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