Re: Y2K Suggestions?

[Jon Paris <paris@xxxxxxxxxx>]

"What else do you know about PowerTools... Do you mean QUSRTOOL library?
Please advise."

No, not QUSRTOOL - although I think Jim Sloan may have done a bit of Y2K stuff
there.  PowerTools is from Pence and Hawkins and they were one of the first
impact analysis tool vendors to support building an interface to our BYPASS2000
product.  BYPASS is a very sophisticated "code fixer" (i.e. it does all of the
date identification and code changes for you) but it does require you to feed
it information about the location of dates on the database.  PowerTools, along
with ManDate and IBM's SEARCH2000 all have the ability to build an interfae
file for BYPASS based on their findings from analysing the data in the files.

The main difference between SEARCH and the other two is that SEARCH kind of
assumes that you are going to be going on to use BYPASS.  The other tools
provide greater depth of information if you're intending to do the code changes
"by hand", but can interface to BYPASS if that proves to be a major task (which
it often does).  For more information on BYPASS, SEARCH, and the other tools
mentioned try the BYPASS home page at  www.software.ibm.com/ad/as400/bypass -
you'll find links to the vendor software, IBM's Y2K pages, etc. all there.

Jon Paris - AS/400 AD Market Support - paris@ca.ibm.com
Phone: (416) 448-4019   -   Fax: (416) 448-4414
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