Thanks Ray for the advice - and well noted.

However, we have a consulating company who is mandating the dates of go live
and if they want their bonuses the dates will be met or there will be
penalities.  And then fortunately the system we are moving to is a system
that has almost as much longevity as the 3000.  They've also migrated quite
of few Hospitals from the platform we are on to their systems.

But you'll like this we're going to replace my little old HP3000/969 with
about 20 windows servers - granted they will do much more than the current
program but I can not believe how much hardware and software it is taking to
replace my baby! And people, we will need almost twice the staff to maintian
this system maybe even more.

Meanwhile they still have me writing tons of code for the 3000 due to HIPPA
and JACHO issues and I was being a bit lazy hoping for a simple solution to
a complex issue.

Thanks,
Catherine Litten,
Senior Programmer / Analyst

Valley Presbyterian Hospital
Community Hospital / Non-Profit Organization
15104 Vanowen Street, Van Nuys, CA  91405 (881) 782-6600
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<http://www.valleypres.org/>

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