Date Simulators

[Roger Boucher <RBoucher@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Please... HELP!! 

I have been working the last few days on reviewing the "IBM Y2K Testing
and the AS/400 System Date" document and analyzing the potential
ramifications for our testing effort.  This effort has been a result of
a decision by our company to test the uncommon software used by one of
our remote divisions... right smack dab on the Production AS/400... by
setting the system date forward (and then back again after testing).  A
decision has been handed down today to scrap that effort (thank
goodness) and IMMEDIATELY get a date simulator to assist in our testing
effort.

I have seen many posts regarding these products in the past, but have
not kept the information due to our companies lack of desire to spend
any time looking into this as a viable option.  Now I find myself in a
position in which I need to collect as much information about date
simulator products as possible... as fast as possible.  I am leaving
today for this remote division to put together a test plan and needless
to say I hope to be armed with at least a bit of knowledge.

Sorry for the long intro... but I would be tremendously grateful if
anyone could provide some feedback as to the effectiveness and dangers
of the use of date simulators for Y2K testing... and perhaps relate any
experiences (good or bad) with any of these products.

Now I am off to the web to download Simdate and start setting it up as
requested by the higher ups.

Thank you a hundred times over for any information provided...
And then thank you a hundred times more!
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