The ability to IPL a system with a non-current date--past or future--was a response to the myriad problems faced by all mainframe customers preparing for Y2K. Certainly there are products that enable *simulation* of non-current dates, but the h/w capability is free and universal. That is, the simulated date is presented to the OS and to all applications without any special setup or priming of applications. Sure, a system has to be reIPLed to change the date, but I wager that in general that takes less time and effort than playing with date-fudging software.
Of course this assumes that you have a true sandbox system to play with. . . . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 626-302-7535 Office 323-715-0595 Mobile jo.skip.robin...@sce.com -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Charles Mills Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2015 5:42 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Testing with dates in the future There were a rash of this sort of product built to address testing of Y2K remediation. I had a friend who wrote one and sold it to one of the big guys (Compuware?) who incorporated it into a whole suite of Y2K-oriented products. Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Andrew Metcalfe Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2015 2:17 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Testing with dates in the future There are a number of vendor tools to facilitate this at a job/user level rather than disturbing the sysplex/system time- IBM's Hourglass is but one. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
