Re: Year 2000 Survival

Posted in 1997

Topics: Installation, Setup & Upgrades, Platform-Specific Issues

Lesley Simpson-ITS — 13 May 1997 09:23:31 -0400 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

On 12 May 1997 01:01, igoddard > >Lesley Simpson-ITS wrote: >> ><snip> >> >> You may need to upgrade the Operating system. For instance HP-UX version >> 10.30 is the earliest to be Y2K compliant and this will not be released >> until Nov. 97. There will be patches for the other v10.x releases, but not >> for v9.x. So anyone still on v9.x will have to upgrade and, depending on > whether Informix will port the older versions of SE to HP-UX 10, may well >> have to upgrade Informix as well. >> > >In what way are earlier versions of HP-UX not Y2K compliant? I don't know the details apart from the date(1) command only accepting 2 digit years, but HP have been advising their customers to upgrade. From the HP website at: http://hpcc920.external.hp.com/ibpprogs/gsy/advantage/dec96/news/2.html "HP-UX 10.30, which is scheduled to ship in the second quarter of 1997, will support complete Y2K functionality. HP also will update earlier versions of HP-UX 10.X (versions 10.01, 10.10 and 10.20) to make them Year 2000 ready by the end of 1997. HP is encouraging customers with HP-UX 9.x and earlier versions to upgrade to HP-UX 10.x." > >Ian Lesley