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Politics : Ask Michael Burke
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To: Knighty Tin who wrote (72694)1/2/2000 10:24:00 AM
From: Freedom Fighter  Read Replies (1) of 132070
 
Mike,

>>I still withhold judgement on Y2K. Business doesn't reopen until Monday. My guess is it isn't serious, but it is not a total non-event.<<

Absolutely correct. What we've seen so far was the easy part.

Virtually every system in my shop and others were already brought up successfully with a 2000 date in a testing environment. Any problems were fixed.

The problems will occur in the processing of transactions, data, reports etc... Monday night is probably even more of an issue than tomorrow morning.

Major problems (if there are any) will be reveled with "abends". Programmers will be available to work on them and correct them ASAP. There could be serious delays though.

Thing likes sort sequence problems, dropped transactions, invalid file formats between customers, faulty calculations etc... won't be known until a full batch cycle has been run.

Similar problems may occur during weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual processing because many systems have separate streams for those functions.

It is much more likely that this sort of stuff has been missed than what we've seen so far.

I found a bug 2 weeks ago that would have wiped out an entire database. (recoverable of course)

Just suppose I had gone to Belmont that day. :-)

Wayne
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