All, G.R. Helm, Inc. is pleased to announce that Time Shift 2000 production versions are now available for demonstration and release!! 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 for clients using HP 3000 computer systems. Time Shift 2000(tm) is one of the first tools developed by G.R. Helm, Inc. to assist our HP3000 clients with their Year 2000 compliance efforts.. 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 all databases, 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(tm)'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 names but also allows the user to exclude fields from particular sets. Therefore, if field 'MISC-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 date values. 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. This software is prices on a system tier level and starts at $999/license. For additional information, please contact G.R. Helm, Inc. at (888) 665-9065 or at (916) 933-9669, email us at [log in to unmask] or visit our web site at http://www.grhelm.com/year2000.htm. For a listing of features, please see http://www.grhelm.com/TS2000 Features.htm. Regards, Gordon Helm ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- ============================================== G. R. Helm, Incorporated Year 2000 Consulting Srvcs 4993 Golden Foothill Pkwy, Suite 1 HP 3000 Specialists El Dorado Hills, CA 95762 (888) 665-9065 [log in to unmask] www.grhelm.com Designers of TimeShift 2000(tm) Date Analysis/Aging ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----