Hi Lance,
If you use one of the software time emulator packages you can safely test your
Y2K code in parallel in separate test accounts on your production system. You
need
to have the extra disc space, but disc is cheap these days.

Of course I would recommend Beyond Y2K's package RAT (Regression Analysis
Tools) as they are designed for Y2K testing in your environment. You will get:

1. Complete methodology on Y2K testing and certification.
2. Record/Playback facility for your VPLUS applications
3. Trace facility to aid debugging and to find differences in path flow and
results
4. Complete tracing of IMAGE intrinsics, and some MPE and VPLUS intrinsics.
5. Ability to run VPLUS in batch so that you can capture and compare screen
output.
6. Aging of data for IMAGE databases, files and scripts.
7. Stack markers of your intrinsic calls
8. Ability to set the system date without changing the actual system date.

All of the above can be downloaded free for 30 days while you try out the
features and
set up your test accounts. After that the introductory price of $3000 for the
first CPU
and $300 for each additional CPU applies.

The downloads can be found on the web page for Beyond Y2K:

www.beyondy2k.org

Steve Zink
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In a message dated 5/14/99 6:16:59 AM Pacific Daylight Time, [log in to unmask]
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>I need to do y2k testing, and would like some feedback.  Our shop does't
>have a test machine.  We want to do this testing on a Satrurday, after
>we do a full backup of the entire system. Part of the testing will
>involve changing the system date to 01/01/2000, and testing production
>jobs.  Is  the appropriate way to go back to reload the operating system
>from a slt tape, and then just do a reload of @[log in to unmask]@?

>Thanks  Lance