Re: Broken date support on old releases?

[Roberto José Etcheverry Romero <yggdrasil.raiker@xxxxxxxxx>]

I know, and that's my only worry. I can't force customers to upgrade but I
would like to be aware if, for example, the DB2 engine was about to start
failing due to said windowing...


On Wed, Jan 2, 2019 at 5:56 PM Rich Loeber <rich@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>    As a programmer who worked on Y2K remediation, I've been expecting
> things
>    like the to crop up.  One of the methods for dealing with Y2K was
>    windowing the last two digits of the year.  I always opted for 40 as the
>    break point, but I know a lot of programmers who opted for 20 or even
>    lower.
>
>    Rich Loeber - @richloeber
>    Kisco Information Systems
>    [1]http://www.kisco.com
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>    On 1/2/2019 3:51 PM, Holger Scherer wrote:
>
>  know this issue - we have even a customer still running V3R2 in
> production as their software is totally modified, no source available, no
> programmer alive.
>  Next week schedules at two customers running V5R1 asking for what to do...
>
>  -h
>
>
>
>  Am 02.01.2019 um 21:43 schrieb Roberto Jose Etcheverry Romero [2]<
> yggdrasil.raiker@xxxxxxxxx>:
>
>  BTW, I've been trying to migrate these customers to current machines, even
>  hosting them on current hardware, but the longevity and self-management
>  features of the system lead to some customers not even thinking of
>  upgrading...
>
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