Actually NOMAD. The dates can be stored in NOMAD internal databases, IMS, IDMS, DB2, SQL/VM.
And the suggestion to use the input window for dates dated to 1979 or so. It was actually implemented in the early 1990s. Lloyd >________________________________ > From: Elardus Engelbrecht <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Sent: Friday, February 14, 2014 8:29 AM >Subject: Checking Years( was - Re: Storage Obtain .....) > > >Lloyd Fuller wrote: > >>Actually in some products quite a lot. > >Some other applications like your example: > >1. Astronomy: (Calculating position/movements of space things from x >year/month/day/etc to y year/etc...) >2. Statistics and Mathematics: Census processing of population of people, >animals, disease growth, etc. Only for really bored students. ;-D >3. Deeds registration: Registration of property. >4. Laws: Writing down laws and refering to year when past laws were made. > >>Internal dates went from 1/1/1600 to a time VERY long in the future (year >>10000 something). > >It depends on language used. > >>In fact, after discussion we even implemented the leap year calendar in the >>past by using negative dates. > >In what format? (COBOL, Assembler, other?) Just curious if you dont mind, >please? > > >Kees Vernooij wrote: > >>If I only had a Euro for each program that has this code and will not live >>until 2100... > >From your industry, you probably know that Boeing was already implementing Y2K >fixes since about 1990 [1] due to long ordering period of about 12 years and >more of aeroplanes from various clients. > >Groete / Greetings >Elardus Engelbrecht > >[1] - I can't remember the exact year but it was certainly in those [ flying >;-D ] times. I would be grateful if someone can post a source confirming it. >:-) > >I warned my management in around 1996 about the upcoming Y2K monster and I >used the Boeing example as part of my motivation. But as you probably guessed >it, the management got active around 1998 and then only because IBM was >getting paranoid ( shame! ;-D ) about that undying Y2K monster. ;-) >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
