STL Time Machine Report #28 - Tuesday 01 September 1998 (1998-09-01)

The Time Machine is running on current date at the moment, while they
resynchronize it to production libraries.  A lot of systems have 
been upgraded recently, and the Time Machine has to run with current
production programs.  Testing will run for a couple of months, and 
then a re-test of all the mission-critical applications together.  

All the the mission-critical apps are installed and Time Machine 
tested, but I've just found two non-mission critical programs that 
have not been remediated yet.

One is used in a weekly report we were trying to shut down for a year, 
but they have since found who's using it, so now it has to be fixed.  
The other program is OS/VS COBOL, and our business rules require it 
to be converted to COBOL II.  It has its own logic for generating 
an MMDDYY date from a julian DDD date with no year.  Sometimes it 
must subtract 1 from the current YY to fill out the MMDDYY date.  
Subtracting '01' from Year '00' in COBOL will give you an answer 
of year '01', instead of the expected year '99'.  

Previous Time Machine Reports are available at:
http://home.att.net/~arnold.trembley/tmr.htm

As of 1998-09-01, My countdown now reads:
 
122 days until 1999-01-01 (Everybody should start testing)
487 days until 2000-01-01 (Rollover)
 
STANDARD DISCLAIMER:  I am NOT an official corporate spokesperson, and
my opinions should not be held against my benevolent employer.

--
Arnold Trembley     
http://home.att.net/~arnold.trembley/
"Y2K?  Because Centuries Happen!"