February 29th

[Deskin, Bob]

We ran tests on some of the old versions (of course). Generally here's what
we found regarding Feb 29, 2000. Note that this is based on what testing we
did and may not cover all old versions or all problems (insert appropriate
legal clauses here - i.e. no guarantees). However I have not heard of any
other Feb 29, 2000 issues and customer tests have verified that these seem
to exist on all older versions. These results assume that the Operating
System runs after Dec 31, 1999 and returns Feb 29, 2000 on Feb 29, 2000.

PowerHouse on MPE/V, MPE/iX and UNIX return an invalid date on Feb 29, 2000.
So if you try and use SYSDATE, you'll get a data conversion or data
expression error. Other dates during the year are returned correctly.

PowerHouse on OpenVMS and AS/400 return Mar 1, 2000 on Feb 29, 2000
depending on the settings for DEFAULT CENTURY and CENTURY INCLUDED|EXCLUDED.
Every day thereafter is 1 day off until Dec 31 when Dec 32 is returned and
gives an error.

PowerHouse on DG AOS/VS will not run after Dec 31, 1999. Patches are
available for the 6.05 release and RBFs. With these patches, the system date
Feb 29, 2000 is picked up correctly.

Hope this helps.

Bob Deskin              
PowerHouse Web Product Manager and Senior Product Advisor
Application Development Tools, Cognos Inc.
bob.deskin@cognos.com (613) 738-1338 ext 7268 FAX: (613) 727-1178
3755 Riverside Drive P.O. Box 9707 Stn. T, Ottawa ON K1G 4K9 CANADA


-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Stewart [mailto:stewm@canada.com]
Sent: February 13, 2000 1:39 AM
To: powerh-l@lists.swau.edu
Subject: February 29th



I assume that most poeple had the sense to upgrade their software to Y2K
certified versions before the end of the last century.  I was wondering has
anyone performed any testing for February 29th on versions of PowerHouse or
operating systems that have not been certified Y2K by the vendor.  For
example prior no longer supported versions of PowerHouse running on an old
VAX or a scenario similiar to this.  If so does anyone know of any older
versions in general or versions running on a non Y2K maching that could
possibly have glitches around February 29th?

Mark Stewart
Consultants Club Corp.
Windsor, Ontario Canada


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