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Technology Stocks : Information Architects (IARC): E-Commerce & EIP
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To: JDN who wrote (9048)11/30/1998 11:44:00 AM
From: TEDennis  Read Replies (3) of 10786
 
JDN: Re: manual method of locating "bugs"

Actually, that was Cap Gemini's Y2K tool that was shown, not just a manual browser/editor. It's an intelligent tool that automatically lets the programmer know all there is to know about the situation at hand.

There are many phases of "automated" fixes. One phase is automatically finding the Y2K exposures. Another phase is determining how to fix the exposures that were found. The 60 Minutes shot was a programmer sitting there trying to figure out what to do with an exposure that had been located. The programmer would then tell the tool how to fix the problem, and the tool would then "automatically" fix it.

I found it disturbing that the programmer said that the transaction would be lost if the code weren't fixed to handle the Y2K. That's highly unlikely. Transactions that for some reason don't pass "inspection" aren't "lost". Typically, anyway. They're put into a suspense file for later inspection by a human being. The human would recognize what the problem was, and manually update the files.

If the application actually "lost" the transaction, their customer service department would be currently inundated daily with complaints, even now before the Y2K affects their code. Problems like that don't have much shelf life. After all, that was a bank that was being "profiled". Banks aren't in the habit of losing transactions. Saying that the transaction would be "lost" was probably thrown in for the scare value. Gotta' keep that 60 Minutes viewer rating way up there!

Whatever,

TED
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