Mr. Hill,

G.R. Helm, Inc. specializes in Year 2000 services and the HP 3000. We
provide outsourcing services using in-house systems including our HP3000
system and a standardized approach to software Year 2000 compliance
practices.  GRHI has developed, and continues to develop, tools to assist in
the analysis and testing phases of these projects.

Time Shift 2000™ is one of the first tools developed at GRHI.  It will both
'analyze' and 'age' date data fields in an IMAGE database.  This software
has been designed to automatically find and examine all date fields
contained in a database, with no user input or directions.  (However, user
inputs can be used to refine the search process.)  The software determines
the date format and the range of date values contained within each data
set's date field.  It also reports the number of records found for each year
encountered, the number of any unknown date values and the location of the
date field within the field (when date fields are concatenated within other
fields).

Time Shift 2000™'s 'aging' feature allows the user to increment any of the
IMAGE date fields by some number of years (positive or negative). TS2000
process dates by their IMAGE field name but also allows the user to exclude
fields from particular sets.  Therefore, if field 'TEMP-HOLD' contains a
date in one data set, but not in another, TS2000 can be directed to only
update the field in the data set containing the dates.  This aging process
becomes very useful in testing to verify processing results that should not
be affected by time changes.  (In other words, the results of a baseline
test using today's date and data should match the results of a test with the
data 'aged' forward by some number of years - assuming day of week and leap
year validations are not performed - and the system clock set forward by
this same number of years.) This type of age testing can be performed
incrementally until all the data has been aged into the 21st century to
verify the functionality of applications as they encounter year 2000 dates.

Please contact G.R. Helm, Inc. at (888) 665-9065 or at (916) 933-9669 for
additional information or email us at [log in to unmask]

Regards,
Gordon Helm
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G. R. Helm, Incorporated          Year 2000 Consulting Srvcs
4993 Golden Foothill Pkwy, Suite 1     HP 3000 Specialists
El Dorado Hills, CA  95762                           (916) 933-9669
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Designers of TimeShift 2000 (tm)        Date Analysis/Aging
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(c) Copyright 1998 by G.R. Helm, Inc.


Date:    Tue, 17 Feb 1998 06:42:20 +0300
From:    Ernest Hill <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Year 2000 Tool

Anyone have any info on Year 2000 tools for the HP. Especially tools used
to manipulate the date for testing.
Ernest Hill
>From the Magic Kingdom of Saudia Arabia
BDM International
Unit 61323, Box 134R
APO, AE 09803-1323
Phone: 966-1-248-1040 xt. 242
Fax: 966-1-478-5622

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