Creating a century window in QUIZ/QTP for PROMPT variables.

[Deskin, Bob]

What I wrote about compliance on MPE/iX is true regardless of the CENTURY
INCLUDED|EXCLUDED or DEFAULT CENTURY settings. There's a list of the
compliant versions on our web site (look for our Year 2000 Position
Statement), and I've included them here as well. We are in the process of
contacting all of our customers as well. While there are slightly different
problems on each platform, generally we're talking about Feb 29, 2000. The
problems are:

MPE/iX and UNIX - PowerHouse does not retrieve the system clock date
correctly on Feb 29, 2000, so SYSDATE is an invalid date
OpenVMS and AS/400 - If the default century is 19, PowerHouse returns
tomorrow's date as SYSDATE after Feb 28, 2000

The complaint versions (with the problems fixed) are:

PowerHouse series 6
AS/400 - 6.07.E and up
(no other series 6 version is compliant)

PowerHouse series 7
MPE/iX - 7.29.C8 and up
OpenVMS - 7.10.F2 and up
UNIX - 7.33.D3 and up, except for DG Intel which is 7.33.E2 and up

PowerHouse series 8
MPE/iX - 8.09.C and up
OpenVMS - 8.00.C1 and up
UNIX - 8.03.C1 and up
NT - 8.01.C1 and up

Any appropriately supported customer can get the compliant versions free of
charge. Contact Customer Support or Cognos Direct.

Bob Deskin              
Senior Product Advisor  bob.deskin@cognos.com
Cognos Inc.             (613) 738-1338 ext 4205 FAX: (613) 228-3149
3755 Riverside Drive P.O. Box 9707 Stn. T, Ottawa ON K1G 4K9 CANADA


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> From: 	Steve Heaslip[SMTP:heaslips@ozemail.com.au]
> Sent: 	April 2, 1998 1:57 AM
> To: 	powerh-l@lists.swau.edu
> Subject: 	Re: Creating a century window in QUIZ/QTP for PROMPT
> variables.
> 
> Deskin, Bob wrote: 
> 
> 	And by the way, PowerHouse 7.09 is NOT year 2000 compliant. It will
> not 
> 	retrieve the system date correctly on Feb 29, 2000. 
> 	 
> 
> ------------------------------ 
> 
> What exactly does this mean?  Are non-Y2k compliant versions of PowerHouse
> 
> unable to retrieve sysdate on 29/2/2000 even if they have the century
> included 
> and have the default century set to 20? 
> 
> Or did that statement only relate to dates without the century included? 
>   
>   
> 
> Steve Heaslip 
> 
> PowerHouse 6.10E1 - Vax/VMS 
>  
> 
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