APPLICATION RECOMPILE AT Y2K

[Pablo Grim]

FROM THE COGNOS WEB SITE ABOUT POWERHOUSE 8.1:

>Year 2000 Friendly Environments
>
>These enhancements make it easier to implement Year 2000 solutions.
>
> No Application Recompile at Year 2000
>
> The good news is that your screens, runs and reports will not require
> recompilation to change the dictionary's default century from 19 to 20. To
> enable the default century once you move to PowerHouse 8.1, you change
> and recompile only the dictionary. At execution time, the default century
> will be picked up from the changed and recompiled dictionary.

So, if we are running 7.10.G we are going to have to recompile everything
at y2k to pick up the new default century?  Yuck.  What is the point of
having a so-called data driven dictionary if you can't change the data
without recompiling?  Recompiling can definitely be a non-trivial
task....Well, I guess recompiling is unavoidable at y2k.  You either
recompile to pick up the new default century in the dictionary or you
recompile to get to version 8.1?
This also means a recompile for y2k testing.

Please tell me I have misunderstood.

tx

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