RE: Year 2000 - code scanning ???
Check out y2ksniff, a free tool provided by Digital (or Compaq I
suppose). It's on their website at http://www.digital.unix.com
It's nothing if not exhaustive in its checking.
Hope that helps
RET
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> From: Muppala, Sharath (Sharath)** CTR **
> Sent: Wednesday, 19 August 1998 5:10 AM
> To: informix-list@iiug.org; 'FreyaIncledon'
> Subject: RE: Year 2000 - code scanning ???
>
> Here I can mention some patterns (search terms) to scan informix code.
> But
> it is advisable to include patterns derived from dbschema of total
> database
> to this list. Some patterns are date, year, yr, yy, today, time,
> clock, dt
> and week. By manually looking at the dbschema of database , we can
> know how
> the date related fields are coded. Most of the potential problems
> comes when
> arithmatic calculations or comparisions have been done on date
> related
> varibles declared other than 'date' datatype.
>
> > ----------
> > From: FreyaIncledon[SMTP:freya.incledon@capgemini.co.uk]
> > Reply To: FreyaIncledon
> > Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 1998 11:18 AM
> > To: informix-list@iiug.org
> > Subject: Year 2000 - code scanning ???
> >
> > Does anybody have a list of generic search terms with which to scan
> > informix code for potential Year 2000 problems? I am thinking about
> > finding non-standard manipulations of dates and other potential
> problems
> > that may not be picked up by scanning for the very obvious terms
> such as
> > 'dd/mm/yy' etc.
> >
> > Freya Incledon
> >
>