This message is a re-send of a prior message with patch name corrected.
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If you support MPE please read on, otherwise, delete.

There is a Known Problem with Vplus KP 5003443929 that affects new Y2K features
for 5.5 ppt 2 and later (including 6.0). Do NOT upgrade customers to any 5.5
power patch nor 6.0 without understanding the potential impact to their
business.

The problem on 5.5 has existed since ppt 2 (VPLJXG3A). It is intermittent. Some
customers have run fine for over a year and not encountered the problem. This is
common for problems, like this one, where the root cause is uninitialized
memory. This patch added the Y2K features to Vplus. These new features are
enabled via:

  :SETJCW VSETNEXTCENTURY 1 (or 2 or 3)

If your customer does not use this JCW, and has no plans to do so (highly
unlikely), then the problem does not affect them and you can stop reading now.


The symptom is that Vplus acts as though the JCW was never set.
The date 02/29/00 is interpreted as Feb 29, 1900 (which is an invalid date)
instead of Feb 29, 2000 (which is valid).

Vplus will return an error such as:

  The field must be a valid date, in MDY order.


Another symptom is that 2 digit years are still returned instead of 4 digit
years. This can cause user DATA CORRUPTION in a production database.

The problem seems to have a greater probability of manifesting itself on
5.5 ppt 5 or ppt 6 than on ppt 4. Also, simply making a change to an existing
formfile and recompiling it can trigger the problem. The problem can even come
and go for individual fields on a form. This is because the JCW is searched
for on each Date type field. Depending on what was left in memory, we may or
may not match the JCW name.

THERE IS NO WORKAROUND!

If a customer's production application is using these features and they make a
change that triggers the problem, they must back-out whatever change they made
and hope that the uninitialized memory returns to its prior, benign state.

Given this, I recommend that customers do NOT install any patches unless
absolutely neccessary until they have a GR version of the patch VPLKXL6 in
their hands.The first beta customer will receive VPLKXL6 C on Fri 2/5/1999.

VPLKXL6 A  for 5.5 beta bad
VPLKXL6 B  for 6.0 beta bad

VPLKXL6 C  for 5.5 beta test
VPLKXL6 D  for 6.0 beta test


In addition, the Vplus version on 5.5 ppt 2 and later is B.06.07. On 6.0 an
older version B.06.06 was shipped by mistake. This means that any customer that
upgrades to 6.0 will lose the Y2K features entirely. The patch VPLJXG3 B will
at least get the B.06.07 version on 6.0 (including the intermittent bug). The
patch VPLKXL6 is version B.06.08.


OS/patch     Vplus version  Comments
---------    -------------  -----------------------------------------------
VPLJXG3      B.06.07        Has Y2K features with intermittent problem.
5.5 ppt 2    B.06.07        ppt 2 contains VPLJXG3
6.0          B.06.06 !      Earlier non-Y2K version. VPLJXG3 B available to
                            get customers to at least the intermittent version.
VPLKXL6      B.06.08        Fixed Y2K version. In beta test for 5.5 and 6.0.



 You can check the current version with:

   :RUN HP32209S.PUB.SYS

VPLUS INTRINSICS VERSION:  HP32209B.06.07

      ------- --------------
      SEGMENT    VERSION
      ------- --------------
        01    B'06'07'S01'00
        02    B'06'07'S02'00
        03    B'06'07'S03'00
        04    B'06'07'S04'00
        05    B'06'07'S05'00
        06    B'06'07'S06'00
        07    B'06'07'S07'00
        08    B'06'07'S08'00
        09    B'06'07'S09'00
        10    B'06'07'S10'00
        11    B'06'07'S11'00
        12    B'06'07'S12'00
        13    B'06'07'S13'00
        14    B'06'07'S14'00
        16    A.00.06.S16.00   <---- Ignore this one.
        17    B'06'07'S17'00
        18    B'06'07'S18'00
        19    B'06'07'S19'00
        20    B'06'07'S20'00
        21    B'06'07'S21'00
        22    B'06'07'S22'00
      ------- --------------

VPLUS NATIVE MODE INTRINSICS VERSION:  HP32209B.06.07
                     OVERLAY VERSION:  B.06.07.00

FOR THIS USER:
   VPLUS NATIVE MODE IS ENABLED;
   VPLUS SWITCH TO COMPATIBILITY MODE IS DISABLED;

   WILL DEFAULT COMPATIBILITY MODE SL SEARCH TO
   SYSTEM SL

        DHCF      A4004000

VPLUS/Windows VERSION:  HP36393A.00.06

VPLUS/Windows Native Mode VERSION:  HP36393A.00.06
                  OVERLAY VERSION:  A.00.06.00