Y2K Versions

[Walker Chris]

Chris,

It's a fair point about my being ill-informed - I'm acutely embarrassed to
find myself so far behind the times.

We have a support contract, but I've seen no sign of 7.10F, let alone 7.10G,
despite ringing Cognos to ask for the latest versions.  You are presumably
dealing with the same Cognos UK as we are - do they send you upgrades
automatically or notify you when they are available?

I'm not really concerned about the century windowing features as we have
already added our own version of this functionality.  But for some reason,
the system date problem came as a surprise.

Chris Walker

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Chris Sharman [SMTP:Chris.Sharman@ccagroup.co.uk]
> Sent:	Thursday, July 23, 1998 2:01 PM
> To:	ChrisWalker@tateandlyle.com
> Cc:	Chris.Sharman@ccagroup.co.uk; powerh-l@lists.swau.edu
> Subject:	RE: Y2K Versions
> 
> >I am concerned about the extent to which a version upgrade will
> invalidate
> >the Y2K modifications and testing we have been engaged in for the past
> year.
> >To tell the truth, it is very disturbing to find out at this stage that
> the
> >version we started with (7.10E) is not Y2K compliant.  It is really far
> too
> >late to start again with new Powerhouse versions, and I am at a loss to
> >understand why Cognos has left this to the last minute.
> 
> I'm surprised you're so ill-informed, to be honest.
> Do you have a support contract with Cognos ?
> Did you ask them for a compliance statement ?
> If yes then I think you should complain pretty loudly to them: if not then
> it's really your own lookout, but this list & the public portion of the
> Cognos
> website should give you most of the info.
> 
> 7.10.F has been around for a year or so, as others have said.
> The "millenium friendly" version was announced some time ago too, although
> 7.10.G is a recent innovation (all other platforms have to go to V8, but I
> think they felt they had too much to do to get V8 for VMS out in time,
> hence
> V7.10.G.
> 
> We're a fairly small company, but we've had 7.10.F3, and have now received
> 7.10.G.
> 
> >What sort of upgrades are 7.10F2 and 7.10G?  
> 
> Nothing earth-shattering in 7.10F*.
> 7.10.G provides all the millenium friendly features people have been
> wanting:
> 
> A default century *window*, settable dictionary-wide and/or on individual
> dates.
> 	This enables you to set the window as (say) 1970 to 2069, so that a
> 	date typed in by a user of 31-dec-99 or 1-jan-00 or 29-feb-00 will
> be
> 	treated correctly: if they really want 1-jan-1900 (or 2100) they'll
> 	have to type the century. There's an allowcentury option (again
> 	dictionarywide or on individual dates) which will allow them to do
> this
> 	for any century included date even when the format is ddmmmyy.
> 
> You'll obviously have work to do if your dates are century excluded, but
> if
> they're included, the new version should enable you to make one change to
> the
> system options in each dictionary, and have your system work fairly well
> across
> the millenium with no other code changes.
> 
> >Will we need to recompile?
> 
> Yes, and convert dictionaries.
> 
> >Are there any other changes in these version which may destabilize our
> test
> >plan?
> 
> Shouldn't do, no, although anything's possible. I've got one extra
> compilation
> warning for "define null ..." which now clashes with the new NULLSEPARATOR
> keyword (another self-explanatory option to ease the pain for those who
> now
> want to display 4 digit years but don't have room on screen).
> 
> I suggest you ignore 7.10.F and go for 7.10.G.
> ______________________________________________________________________
> Chris Sharman			Chris.Sharman@CCAgroup.co.uk
> CCA Stationery Ltd, Eastway, Fulwood, Preston, Lancashire, PR2 9WS.
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