RE: Year 2000 Survival
Posted in 1997
Lesley Simpson <lesley.simpson@bbc.co.uk> wrote: }X-Informix-List-Id: <list.14400> } }Sanjeev wrote: }>I am using Informix SE 5.0. I am concerned about the impact of year 2000 in }>my Informix database. [...] } }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) 7.20 rather than 7.22, but you will probably find that the fix will be back-ported to the Tools (I4GL and friends) at versions 6.10 and 4.20 (on Unix -- completely distinct from 4.20 on Windows), and at some unspecified release of the 5.0x servers (OnLine and SE). Version numbers and dates always subject to change, of course. }which uses DBCENTURY to work out the century. Yours intervening solely in the interests of accuracy, Jonathan Leffler (johnl@informix.com) #include <disclaimer.h>