y2k revisited?

[Pickering, John (NORBORD)]

Bob

The dictionary is exactly the same, except recompiled with the new PH
version.

Looks like something has changed bewteen 8.19 and 8.49.

Here's the entire pdl options statement. Since there's no default century I
guess the default century is 19.

System Options &
Ascii7 &
Century INCLUDED &
Input Century 19 From Year 50 &
Character Set English &
Generic Retrieval Character "@" &
Date Format YYMMDD &
Date Separator "/" &
Decimal "." &
Message Substitution Character "^" &
Multiline Heading Character "^" &
Picture Substitution Character "^" &
Special Name Character "-/'" &
Sysmonths "JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec" &
Title "Norbord Industries Inc." &
ASC ID Method Logonid

Regards,
JWP


-----Original Message-----
From: Deskin, Bob [mailto:Bob.Deskin@Cognos.COM]
Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2004 3:46 PM
To: 'Pickering, John (NORBORD)'; Powerhouse List (E-mail)
Subject: RE: y2k revisited?


The INPUT CENTURY option and the DEFAULT CENTURY options are two separate
options. the DEFAULT CENTURY is what is used when processing and formatting.
The INPUT CENTURY is used when prompting the user in QUICK. We did not do a
windowing century for existing data for obvious reasons.

Is the dictionary you're using the same one as in 8.19? The default for
DEFAULT CENTURY is still 19, so if you created a test dictionary from
scratch and did not say DEFAULT CENTURY 20, you'll get this error. What was
the DEFAULT CENTURY in the dictionary in 8.19?

I'm trying to get all the information. It is possible that something was
changed between 8.19 and 8.49.
Bob Deskin              
Senior Product Manager, 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: Pickering, John (NORBORD) [mailto:PICKERIJ@norbord.com] 
Sent: February 26, 2004 3:38 PM
To: 'Deskin, Bob'; Powerhouse List (E-mail)
Subject: RE: y2k revisited?


Bob

Take a look at the pdl option statement parameter in my original message. I
understood this to mean that 19 is the default century for dates where yy is
>= 50. Not correct?

Please note that 8.19 works fine and 8.49 fails -- so what's changed between
these versions?

Regards,
JWP

-----Original Message-----
From: Deskin, Bob [mailto:Bob.Deskin@Cognos.COM]
Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2004 3:25 PM
To: 'Pickering, John (NORBORD)'; Powerhouse List (E-mail)
Cc: Deskin, Bob
Subject: RE: y2k revisited?


The issue here is that the date is declared as CENTURY EXCLUDED. Any century
excluded date is assumed to be in the default century. The option is named
"INPUT CENTRUY" and applies to input only. It does not apply to existing
data not does it apply to century excluded dates. It was designed so that
pre-existing (pre-Y2K) screens did not have to be modified where they
allowed a year entry without the century into a century included date.
Century excluded dates still had to be converted.
So the defined item gives you 19000229 which is an invalid date because
there was no Feb 29, 1900 based on the rule of 400.
Bob Deskin              
Senior Product Manager, Application Development Tools, Cognos Inc. 
bob.deskin@cognos.com (613) 738-1338 ext 7268 FAX: (613) 727-1178 
3755 Riverside Drive, Ottawa ON K1G 4K9 CANADA 
-----Original Message----- 
From: Pickering, John (NORBORD) [mailto:PICKERIJ@norbord.com] 
Sent: February 26, 2004 3:19 PM 
To: Powerhouse List (E-mail) 
Cc: Deskin Bob (E-mail) 
Subject: y2k revisited? 


Anybody got any ideas about this one? 
I've logged a "case" with Cognos but I thought somebody out there might have
found and fixed this one already. We're moving to a new machine and a new
version of MPE and are taking the opportunity to upgrade PowerHouse versions
at the same time. So what's with the error below in 8.49.C?
The dictionary options include: 
  Century INCLUDED & 
  Input Century 19 From Year 50 & 
Any help appreciated. 
Regards, 
JWP 


Q U I Z   (PowerHouse  8.19.C4) 
Copyright 1999 COGNOS INCORPORATED 
Norbord Industries Inc. 
> def d-date-ce date century excluded = 000229 
> rep all 
> go 


04/02/26                    Norbord Industries Inc.                    PAGE 
1 
  D-DATE-CE 
  00/02/29 




Q U I Z   (PowerHouse  8.49.C) 
Copyright 2003 COGNOS INCORPORATED 
Norbord Ind. 
> def d-date-ce date century excluded = 000229 
> rep all 
> go 


04/02/26                    Norbord Industries Inc.                    PAGE 
1 
  D-DATE-CE 
  ######## 


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