DATE/2000
P O Box 600084
San Diego, California 92160-0084
Telephone: (619) 282-6792
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: http://members.aol.com/date2000/web
U.K. Contact Info:
The Diskcraft Centre
29 Low Burgage, Winteringham
Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire
DN15 9PF U.K.
Tel/Fax: 44 (0) 1724 732433
Contact us by Mail, Telephone, or E-MAIL
for a Brochure and an Order Form
DATE/2000(tm) is designed and written for the following IBM
midrange computers where the RPG programming language is used:
IBM System/34
IBM System/36
IBM AS/400 Advanced 36
IBM AS/400, System/36 Environment only
DATE/2000 can be used on custom software and unsupported third-
party software.
RPG source code must be available.
We are data processing consultants who have worked with over 100
businesses during the past 23 years. Our expertise is in the IBM
midrange computer arena, and our specialty is the development of
custom software for the special needs of our customers. Very often
we have been the support and maintenance team for software which
was originally written by other programmers, who may no longer be
available to the customer. We have proudly and faithfully
supported our customers as their needs have evolved and their ideas
have grown.
In recent years, as we have developed software and planned for the
Year 2000 in our NEW programs, we decided to plan early for the
conversion that would be necessary to make the Year 2000 migration
a smooth transition for the OLD, reliable, legacy software systems
our customers depend upon DAILY for managing their businesses.
The result is our DATE/2000 product. DATE/2000 is what we use as
our tool for conversion of the software of our customers for the
Year 2000. We have the responsibility of managing these
conversions, and so we have developed the best tools possible. We
have also prepared a handbook full of our methods for handling the
many different situations which we have already encountered in our
own software and in the software systems where we have performed
maintenance.
DATE/2000 offers this solution:
DATE/2000 produces comprehensive reports which reveal the scope of
the date usage in your software systems. These reports can be
evaluated by you and your programmers, for the determination of
which of your software systems have the heaviest use of dates.
Also, these reports will reveal whether dates are actually used in
"calculations", or whether dates are being used for "display"
purposes only. This is crucial information for the development of
an implementation plan.
Some of the reports are as follows:
It can be used in conjunction with DATE01 - Programs with Dates to evaluate the programming impact of expanding or not expanding dates. It can be used in conjunction with Record Layouts, to see whether there is available space for date expansion, or whether records have to be enlarged.
Our aim is to provide assistance in accomplishing the transition from the 20th to the 21st century. Existing software systems which were developed and implemented in the past will require evaluation, specifically to identify the scope of date usage. Some systems have no dates at all. Some systems have dates, but they are merely used on reports and inquiry screens to record when events have occurred. Other systems have dates which are used in "comparisons" (example - did Date 1 occur between Date A and Date B?) or in "calculations" (example - have more than 30 days elapsed between Date X and Date Y?). Sometimes dates are used for "sequencing", so that reports print information in chronological sequence.
It is our primary purpose to provide the tools to assist you in the
evaluation of date usage in your existing software systems.
Secondarily, we would like to provide you with insight, ideas,
techniques, methodologies, and game plans to be used by your
programmers as the underpinnings of an implementation plan for your
business to prepare to handle dates in the next century.
There are various ways to accomplish the Year 2000 date transition.
They range from an extremely simplistic solution where all dates in all systems are converted to an expanded format, without regard for whether a particular date requires any change at all, to a solution where no dates are expanded in any systems but instead logical routines are added to programs and procedures systematically where needed. And there are pros and cons, depending on each situation.
There is still plenty of time to manage this in an organized and
intelligent fashion. The best part about this conversion is that
it does not have to be implemented at the stroke of midnight on
December 31, 1999. In fact, software developers have already begun
to write new programs that deal more intelligently with dates.
Your existing systems can be converted "one at a time", over the
next few years. Or you can have them converted "over a weekend".
It is not too early to begin, and we believe the evaluation phase
should be done as soon as possible. Every computer owner will need
a game plan.
Though the necessity for a Year 2000 conversion is widespread and
in fact permeates the entire computer software industry, we believe
that it is a manageable task. To put it into perspective, it does
not compare with a change in our monetary system, or a total switch
to the metric system.
In all probability those who wait until the 11th hour to begin,
will have limited people resources available to them, the costs
will have escalated, and the temptation may be to completely
abandon their computer systems for "new technology" which has this
situation "handled".
Our philosophy is that a wise course is to safeguard one's software and hardware investment by beginning early and completing the job with plenty of time to spare.
Should you have any questions concerning the License Agreement restrictions, the Limited Warranty or Limitations of Liability, or if you desire to contact us for any reason, you may reach us at:
DATE/2000
P O Box 600084
San Diego, California 92160-0084
Telephone: (619) 282-6792
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: http://members.aol.com/date2000/web
U.K. Contact Info:
The Diskcraft Centre
29 Low Burgage, Winteringham
Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire
DN15 9PF U.K.
Tel/Fax: 44 (0) 1724 732433
Contact us by Mail, Telephone, or E-MAIL
for a Brochure and an Order Form
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