Re: Y2K

[Gary L Peskin <garyp@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Debbie --

If you're going to use this approach, I would definitely recommend the
scratch and reload.  Otherwise, you'll have logs, journals, objects,
etc. with dates in the future which will get OS/400 VERY confused.

I don't know if you've looked at IBM's page on this yet but you can find
it at:

        http://www.as400.ibm.com/developer/year2000/y2sysdat.html

You might want to try some of the date simulators for all or a portion
of your testing.  These do not require that you change your system date.

-- 
Gary L Peskin
The Firstech Corporation
+1.323.658.1146
http://www.simdate.com


Debbie Helms wrote:
> 
> We are going to set the dates on our development box CISC 3.2 and one of our
> production boxes RISC 4.2 to the year 2000 and beyond.  Has anyone had "any"
> experience in doing this?  Everything  I read says at the end of the test to
> scratch and reload.  Can we do this is in a controlled environment and not
> do the scratch reload?  Any advice and/or help will be appreciated.
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