Y2K testing

[Robert J.M. Edis]

G'day Shawn

PowerHouse has MANY date functions and I am surprised the programmers there
don't know it.  Is there anyone there who knows PowerHouse?  I would advise
you to obtain a copy of Power2000, Cognos's year 2000 analysis and
remediation tool.  It's a bit tricky to learn but a very powerful tool
nonetheless.  It will identify just about all the date issues existing in
your code, including date functions and where date arithmetic is used.

Creative Computing, Inc. is a full service Cognos Partner with both
development tools (PowerHouse, Axiant) and business intelligence tools
(Impromptu, etc).  If you want help with your project please feel free to
contact us.  We have many consultants with a great number of years
experience with PowerHouse on most platforms, especially MPE.  We have
in-house Power2000 experience as well.  The web site is WWW.CREATCOMP.COM.

Robert Edis
PowerHouse consultant
Creative Computing, Inc.
Rhode Island, USA



	-----Original Message-----
	From:	Shawn Gordon [SMTP:Shawn_Gordon@Notes.FH.Com]
	Sent:	Thursday, December 24, 1998 9:28 AM
	To:	Deskin, Bob
	Cc:	All
	Subject:	RE: Y2K testing



	I'm not too up on Powerhouse, but I am doing all the Y2K remediation
at a
	client, and they have thousands of powerhouse programs.  From
looking at
	their code, and asking their programmers, there doesn't seem to be
any date
	functions within powerhouse, which absolutely shocks me, and I still
refuse
	to believe.  For example, is there a function to return a date that
is the
	first date of the current month, or the last day of the prior month
- what
	about straight date arithmatic?  Can you just add a value to a date
type
	var and it will correctly calculate it?

	To address the testing of data, we are using DataWarp on the HP 3000
to age
	the dates in both the Image databases and MPE/KSAM files.  Using
this
	method you can then verify that your programs work when your data
spans or
	totally exists in the new century.

	shawn


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