Folks, Is this really the place for this ? I just joined this list in the hope of finding a robust discussion of Y2K problems and approaches. You could say that I'm much more interested with how folks are dealing with byzantine data, file and program relationships than byzantine (and fractious) text interpretations. My shop has a multiple language enviornment and because of the expected life of our systems, the structure of our data, and the way our dates are used, we have decided to utilize a date windowing approach. Basically we're avoiding date expansion except as a last resort. Almost all our dates are in YYMMDD format and we're using standardized date routines for conversions, comparisons, edits, calculations, etc.... We're adding seperate century fields in Image for those dates that are used as Image sort keys. This approach is working quite well for programs written in Transact and Cobol, but unfortunately it makes our adhoc reporting a little more difficult. Are there any MPE/iX products out there that allow conversion on the fly of YYMMDD dates for sorting and comparision without having to make multiple passes thru the data? For example: GET IMAGE-DATASET IF DATE < 021109 SORT DATE Thanks [log in to unmask]