Re: Question: How will the Year 2000 bug impact your work?

In article <547tpe$1r9@portal.gmu.edu> jholm@osf1.gmu.edu (Juliana L Holm) writes: >Yes and no. You are right if you are arguing that the complexity has >been overblown. However, this is a much bigger problem for financial, >and HR systems, which do a lot of calculation using dates. All the more reason to assume it was handled. >The work is indeed tedious, but it is also long, particularly in systems >that are not well documented. You say you did this while doing new >development. That would imply that there are people working on >enhancements to the systems. Many systems, including a lot involved >with the Federal Government, may require FINDING everywhere where these >fields are used, not to mention finding the fields. Well, if your cursory analysis of the system reveals that you do, indeed, have two digit dates, then what you do is to buy Via/Insight or its equivalent competing product and do "FX DATE INDIRECT" and sha-ZAM. This is a task that a computer can perform quite reliably. >I don't think that the effects of doing nothing are overblown. Bottom >line is, if you do nothing, your systems will not work reliably. Perhaps and perhaps not. It depends on how your system was designed.