Re: Testing with dates in the future

Paul Gilmartin wrote: >If the application being tested is necessarily networked, >there's a need to simulate the future date at all network >interfaces and perhaps at the STP reference. >This may be more complicated nowadays than it was 16 years ago. Or one could simplify the application's

Re: Testing with dates in the future

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

Re: Testing with dates in the future

We did for Y2K. - -teD -   Original Message   From: Markus Haselbach Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2015 04:55 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Reply To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Subject: Testing with dates in the future Hallo, in our installation we do application testing with special dates

Re: Testing with dates in the future

On Wed, 23 Sep 2015 05:41:46 -0700, Charles Mills wrote: >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. > If

Re: Testing with dates in the future

Ain't everything Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2015 8:26 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Testing with dates in the future On Wed, 23 Sep 2015 05:41

Re: Testing with dates in the future

Markus Haselbach wrote: >in our installation we do application testing with special dates like end of >month, end of year or leap day by IPling all Lpars in a test sysplex with a >date/time offset which can be as big as 100 days or more. Does someone run >test sysplexes also this way

Re: Testing with dates in the future

[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

Testing with dates in the future

Hallo, in our installation we do application testing with special dates like end of month, end of year or leap day by IPling all Lpars in a test sysplex with a date/time offset which can be as big as 100 days or more. Does someone run test sysplexes also this way with future dates?

Re: Testing with dates in the future

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Re: Testing with dates in the future

Hi Markus, We got a product called TICTOC for Y2K testing. It worked great for that and we kept it for time period sensitive applications. The current name is Application Time Facility, distributed by IBM. They do keep it current. We don't IPL for date testing anymore. We use it with batch,

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. Andrew Metcalfe This e-mail and any attachments are confidential and intended solely for the addressee and may also be privileged or exempt from

Re: Testing with dates in the future

IBM no longer markets nor supports ATF.Customers of ATF have to buy Tictoc from Can-do Systems or go to IBM Hourglass or something else. On Wednesday, 23 September 2015, Linda wrote: > Hi Markus, > > We got a product called TICTOC for Y2K testing. It worked great