Folks, Is this really the place for this ?  I just joined this list in
the hope of finding a robust discussion of Y2K problems and
approaches.  You could say that I'm much more interested with how
folks are dealing with byzantine data, file and program relationships
than byzantine (and fractious) text interpretations.

My shop has a multiple language enviornment and because of the
expected life of our systems, the structure of our data, and the way
our dates are used, we have decided to utilize a date windowing
approach.  Basically we're avoiding date expansion except as a last
resort.  Almost all our dates are in YYMMDD format and we're using
standardized date routines for conversions, comparisons, edits,
calculations, etc....  We're adding seperate century fields in Image
for those dates that are used as Image sort keys.  This approach is
working quite well for programs written in Transact and Cobol, but
unfortunately it makes our adhoc reporting a little more difficult.

Are there any MPE/iX products out there that  allow conversion on the
fly of YYMMDD dates for sorting and comparision without having to make
multiple passes thru the data?  For example:

GET IMAGE-DATASET
IF DATE <  021109
SORT DATE


Thanks
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