Re: Year 2K - how to shake down your system

[ConnectY2K@xxxxxxx]

HELP No  there are selective  tools for this -

If you  do not use  your are working too hard &  should be spending time
looking for another job.

In a message dated 97-08-15 05:41:52 EDT, you write:

<< Date:        97-08-15 05:41:52 EDT
 From:  CORNELLS@mercyhealth.com (Scott Cornell)
 Sender:        mcsnet!midrange.com!midrange-l-owner@Mcs.Net
 Reply-to:      MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
 To:    MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
 
 Ok, here's a good one for the list...most
 of the Y2K tools I've seen any information
 on do all kinds of cool things for IDing
 programs needing changes, testing changes,
 heck some even do the code changes for you.
  But I have yet to see a tool that will
 tell me "OK, here are the dates in your
 system - DB, displays, reports, the works."
  Most of 'em make you enter the date fields
 manually, THEN they tell you the extent of
 your problem.
 
 What I did for one of our smaller in house
 apps was 
 
 - dumped out *ALL fields using DSPFFD
 - killed the "obvious" non-dates (e.g. 7.5
 numeric fields, 25A character fields, etc)
 using SQL
 - painstakingly reviewed the remaining
 fields for dates (by field text and actual
 contents in the DB)
 
 I'm not thrilled with this process, either
 for it's accuracy nor the amount of effort
 it requires.  Anybody out there got any
 better ideas on how to perform this
 critical 1st step for Y2K fixing?
 
 Scott Cornell
 Mercy Information Systems
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