Re: Year 2000 Question...Again!!

[Neil Palmer <neil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Steve Raisor wrote:
> 
> I know this has probably been ask, but what effect would setting the
> date ahead on a AS/400.  The end users at our company want to see the
> effects of the year 2000 on our software and want the IS department to
> set our backup/development machine to January, 2000.  The production
> machine is mimixed to our backup machine and the programmers use this
> machine for development.
>

Just a few things that come quickly to mind:

1) If you run the IBM cleanup (CHGCLNUP) you could delete all your
current joblogs, OV/400 Calendar entries, etc.

2) If you use the IBM Security Toolkit you could 'expire' all your user
profiles.

3) If you aren't on V3R2 or V3R7 (or don't have the PTF's for Year 2000
applied to V3R1 or V3R6) and you use EXPDATE on your tape saves, you
could end up writing over your unexpired backups without warning.

4) Your software could do all kinds of evil things,
Expire customers credit limits, purge history, create bad journal
entries, etc. etc.
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