For my y2k night, we were expected to be onsite, at the place I worked then. We had made lists, checked everything twice. Lot's of hours to prepare, it felt like a marathon with the finish line in sight.
That morning, I started to feel tired and run down, I took a nap in the afternoon and woke up super sick, running a fever and other assorted unpleasant things. I dragged myself to work, Very little happened, had to look at one unrelated thing and test a few things out. Mostly I slept. We had a program that was called to handle dates. most dates were 3 or 4 char, so it didn't matter, but the program was called any way. Our pivot year was further out, but I was told: "it didn't matter because the mainframe was going away." It's still going. The program pivot year could have been changed. The problem was solved over time and the date fields were expanded, or the work went to something newer. It was nice it was an opportunity to get things off OS/VS COBOL and COBOL II. Mark -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Thursday, January 2, 2020 3:28 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: it was 20 years ago today External Email On Thu, 2 Jan 2020 21:14:23 +0000, McCabe, Ron wrote: >From what I'm finding in our shop the date century window was 20 and it just >got bumped up to 30...so in ten years we will have to go through this again >and no will remember about it. > Dumbness is expanding: in 1965 there was a 30-year window. In 1999 designers settled for 20. Some places had the foresight to implement a sliding window, e.g.: (Today-69,Today+30). There were probably problems when archival data unexpectedly slid off the left end. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN DISCLAIMER: This email and any attachments may contain confidential information that is intended solely for use by the intended recipient(s). If you are not the intended recipient, you are strictly prohibited from disclosing, copying, distributing or using any of the information contained in the communication. If you received this email in error, please contact the sender by reply email and immediately delete the communication. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
