Chris, Andreas, and others,
Can some of you that have/are going to do this kind of testing, provide
some screen shots of system level operations. (like showtime, etc.) We
are a 24x7 shop and have NO development box other than our production
box. We cannot afford the down-time it would take to do this kind of
testing, but corporate is pushing us to do this kind of testing. We are
in good shape as far as our applications go, since it is custom
developed and we have already tested it out in our TEST account, but we
have no proof that the box will go on ticking after the key dates. (I'm
not having any heartache about the machine being able to run, but
corporate is.)
Any kind of documentation, that explicitly shows the dates being tested,
is what I'm looking for. HP, do you have some of these kinds of
documents??
Thanks,
Kevin Newman
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andreas Schmidt [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Thursday, December 17, 1998 8:55 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Year 2000 Test
>
> We're planning the same.
>
> We will do it on an empty CPU (lucky we are: we will have one).
> We will create a SLT (with Config group etc.) and Fullbackup, checking
> the
> tapes etc,
> then install the applications accounts from fullbackups from the other
> CPU,
> then hardboot to different dates and running through this famous dates
> (31DEC99 to 01JAN00 etc.), in parallell to applications activities
> etc.
> Finally we will do an INSTALL to make sure that we are really back in
> this
> Century for all files.
>
> Such a plan will not risk anything. Some system files will get new
> dates,
> and finally without a complete RESTORE;NOKEEP;OLDDATE you will fall
> into
> some system traps ...
>
> And I assume that a weekend is too short to perform all the magic time
> steps ...
>
> Best regards, Andreas Schmidt, CSC, Germany
>
>
>
>
>
> [log in to unmask] on 12/17/98 05:19:47 PM
>
> Please respond to [log in to unmask]
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> To: [log in to unmask]
> cc: (bcc: Andreas Schmidt/HI/CSC)
> Subject: Year 2000 Test
>
>
>
>
> We have converted our data and applications to accomodate 8 digit
> dates.
> We tested with Time Machine and Time Shift and everything is
> performing
> normally. Our customer has asked us to perform a 'real' simulation
> by
> booting the system with a date in the year 2000 and then testing
> system and
> application software. Has anyone done this before? I know we have to
> be
> concerned with software licensing since some of the software licenses
> require annual renewal. Are there issues we need to be concerned with
> when
> we roll back the system to the current date. Does anyone have a
> project
> plan with which they have done this? We plan on taking an entire
> weekend
> to roll forward, test and then roll back. Is this enough time?
> Thanks in
> advance for anyone's help.
> Chris Enderle
> IBM Global Services
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