Recently in response to another post on 3000-L I said:

> ......  I just went and looked at the structure of the
> DICT/3000 database (it is standard TurboIMAGE), and sure
> enough:  DATE-CREATE and DATE-CHANGE are pervasive
> in almost all the datasets in the DICT database;  they are both
> YYMMDD X6....

HP responded to my above on [log in to unmask]  Since users
of the RAPID products are not the only ones who use DICT/3000,
FYI for any who care;  and because at least one third-part vendor
has apparently been saying that DICT/3000 is not Y2K compliant;
I forward HP's response to this list.  Kelly Sznaider said:

> Dictionary/3000 was modified to handle year 2000.  The dates are in
> the form of YYMMDD.  No changes will be made to include the century.
> These dates are basically for auditing purposes.  Each transaction is
> date stamped and displayed with the appropriate command.  No "real"
> processing happens with the date fields in Dictionary or the
> Dictionary utilities.  All these programs have been tested according
> to HP's Y2K compliance.
>
> Dictionary is Y2K compliant as of version A.03.01.  You can get this
> version via MPE/iX 5.5 PowerPatch 6 or MPE/iX 6.0 or call the response
> center for patch DICKXD5.
>
> Regards,
> Kelly Sznaider
> Hewlett-Packard

Since no operations are performed on DATE-CREATE and
DATE-CHANGE, the above sounds reasonable to me....

Ken Sletten