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To: Warren Gates who wrote (190)	10/20/1996 1:09:00 PM
From: Craig Richards	of 18263

Warren, Thanks for all your informative posts on this thread. In reading the information, this section caught my eye: >MatriDigm's year 2000 solution provides a 2-byte representation of > a 4-digit date field >(1) that enable both converted and non-converted applications >and data files to coexist >in the same production environment. Additionally, most existing >data files and JCL do >not require any conversion. I don't know anything about COBOL, but it sounds like they're taking a 2 byte ASCII field (or would COBOL store it as 2 hex digits?), and converting it into a 16 bit value. This way, if a date field is above the value 0x3030, it must be an old style 1900's date, otherwise the year would be stored as a 16 bit value (i.e. 2000 would be stored as 0x7d0). This means there would be no conversion of data files necessary. Is this how other y2k conversions are being done? If not, do you think that this approach provides value compared to other approaches? It's possible that this is the part that they're trying to patent. (In fact, I think that's what the "(1)" in the text indicates).

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