Re: Y2K testing

At 01:33 06/17/1999 , Phani wrote:
>Hi Midrangers,
>
>We are planning to do Y2K testing from the Systems ponit of view. We are
>planning to change the System date, do our testing and finally change the
>system date back to the original one. I heard that IBM doesn't recommend
>changing the System date to back and forth.  I would like to know how others
>are going about it OR is it just enough if you are at Y2K ready OS version.

We leased a small AS/400 for a month. We put a lot of work into configuring
and tuning our production box. No way were we about to put it at risk just
to play games with dates. You can do a scratch reload, but what happens if
you have a media error? Even without that, how much is the downtime and the
wear, tear and stress on the IT staff worth? It cost us well under US$10K.
We didn't need to do it during off hours. There was no disruption of
service, no overtime, no risk. At the end of the whole thing, we scratched
the system, put it back in the box, called the trucking company, and went
home to a nice dinner. It was money well spent.
Pete Hall
pbhall@execpc.com
http://www.execpc.com/~pbhall
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