Re: Year 2000

[Mark Lazarus <mlazarus@xxxxxxxx>]

> >Doing a Y2K conversion AND converting to ILE is a bit ambitious, don't you
> >think?  
> 
>  Not really.  I'm referring to doing the basic conversion that OS/400
> provides.  The idea here is to leverage the investment you are making into
> making the DB more robust, easier to maintain and use in the future.  Many
> applications use dates as a pivotal part of the proceessing logic.  The
> conversion to ILE is really a simple conversion to RPG IV.
 
>AND in order to  use these NEW functions one must make changes to
>applications in the form of ????  Then Test ????

 RPG IV makes most of the date manipulation tasks so easy that it would be a
shame to pass up the opportunity to do it correctly.

 -mark

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