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Charles Finley, Open-Ended Systems Corp
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> From: mdc.com (Joseph Uhrig) <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Wildly off-topic: the end-of-world occurs this  Sunday!
> Date: Monday, October 27, 1997 9:07 AM
>
> 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
>
>
Yes, we represent Denkart who has a product called Via2000.  It parses your

COBOL code and regenerates a version of it with annotations in the
form of comments.  You can then use it's conversion assistant to
accept its recommended changes or to make your own at the indicated
point in the code.  It uses a Java-based GUI to assist you in the process.

The annotated source code listing is actually displayed by
your web browser and when you are looking at a specific program
at a line in which a date variable is used in other programs or
copylibs, it has hot links to those programs.  Clicking on those
hot links brings you to the module and the spot where the
variable is used!

For  more information contact Miles Fleming at [log in to unmask] or
1-800-876-5975 (310-957-2200 x872).