Re: The 1972 Y2K fix

[dhandy@xxxxxxxxxxx (Douglas Handy)]

David,

>Im running V2R3 at home on my E20 and V3R1 on my model200.So if I do a IPL
>and set the system time back to 1972 will this work?

It may stand better chances of working on a non-production machine,
where you may care less if strange things happen with the VLOGs,
system journals, scheduler, operational assistant, user profiles, etc.
I pity the poor manager who thinks he can roll the clock back between
Christmas and New Year's and think everything will go smooth.

As a general rule, IBM doesn't recommend rolling the clock back, even
after a short Y2K test.  They say you should save the system, advance
the clock to each date you want to test (going forward only), then
reset the clock and completely reload the system to the original
state.

Obviously, you don't have a backup of the system made prior to 1972,
so you have no choice but to be turning back the system clock  There
are several steps you'd want to take from checking password expiration
settings to the job scheduler, etc.  For some ideas, look here:

http://www.as400.ibm.com/developer/year2000/y2sysdat.html

>Since these are only
>home machines to learn on-its not viable to buy V3R2 under these
>circumstances.

But it is viable to just use a machine without a legal OS license?

Doug
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