STL Time Machine Report #10 - Sun 08 Mar 1998 (1998-03-08)

We had our Certification Sign-Off celebration last Monday (1997-03-02)
with cake and punch in a large conference room.  The project director
made a little speech thanking everyone.  About 30 people attended,
obviously not everyone who worked on the project.

I hung around afterwards and talked about electricity and phone 
networks.  They're concerned about it, but there's not much they 
can do beyond prodding our suppliers and laying in extra diesel 
for the UPS generators.

"Congratulations and thanks for a job well down!"

These were very nice words, much appreciated by those of us who were in
the trenches, but we're still not done.  We have three more groups of
applications testing to perform.  

The beta release of the LE/MVS compliant database passed all its
testing and has been installed in the YTF.  

Testing will continue through 1999.  

Since the question seems to come up fairly often in
comp.software.year-2000, the year 2000 is indeed a leap year, and
February will have 29 days in it (not 30).

Tested mainframe system software includes IBM MVS/ESA 5.2.2, CICS 4.1,
Language Environment for MVS 1.5, VS COBOL II release 1.4, and COBOL for
MVS and VM release 1.2.
 
Previous issues of the STL Time Machine Reports can be found at:

http://home.att.net/~arnold.trembley/tmr.htm

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Arnold Trembley     
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