RE: Year 2000 Survival

Sanjeev wrote: >Hi Friends, > >I am using Informix SE 5.0. I am concerned about the impact of year 2000 in >my Informix database. I would like to know if there could be any problems >with this current version and the major steps i should take to avoid this >problem. > >Any suggestion would be appreciated. > Informix itself is OK: If you are using 4 digit years in all your forms & reports, there will be no problem. If you are using 2 digit years, then you will either have to amend the forms & reports, or update to a later version (7.22 is the earliest, I think) which uses DBCENTURY to work out the century. BUT: 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. HTH Lesley