PowerHouse 7.10G2 release info

[Deskin, Bob]

The ZDATE datatype was originally intended as support for Hewlett Packard's
MM/3000 system wherein this method of encoding began. It can also be used as
an alternative to physical expansion of zoned dates. Of course changing to
ZDATE is logical expansion in that the new dates are century included and
all logic must be changed to handle that. You're right in that any
non-PowerHouse apps that need to use this data would have to have a
translation. However, those apps would need Y2K remediation in any case.
This is not suggested as a perfect solution but as just one of many options.

Bob Deskin              
Senior Product Advisor  bob.deskin@cognos.com
Cognos Inc.             (613) 738-1338 ext 4205 FAX: (613) 228-3149
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-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Witkopp [mailto:witkopp@idt.com]
Sent: Monday, February 22, 1999 12:44 PM
To: powerh-l@lists.swau.edu
Subject: RE: PowerHouse 7.10G2 release info


> P.S. ZDATE allows storage of the century in 6 character format
>      such that  991231 = 19991231
>                 A00101 = 20000101
>                 A10101 = 20010101
>                 B01010 = 20100101
>                 B90101 = 20900101    ..... etc
>               ie the 1st 2 chars Ax = 200x
>                                  Bx = 201x   etc
> 
>     I believe that if you have dates stored as 
> ** character size6** or ** zoned-u size6 ** and you do not have any
> advanced dates, then to be y2k compliant, all you have to do 
> is change the
> data type to ZDATE and include the new INPUT CENTURY command in the
> dictionary, then just recompile! You may not even have to 
> convert advanced
> dates!
> 
> Could anybody let me know if I an wrong, please.

I would think converting zoned fields this way would be very
dangerous to non-Powerhouse apps using those fields.
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