Patent ID: 6253336
Filing Date: 2001-06-26
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
An article of manufacture comprising:at least one computer usable medium having computer readable program code means embodied therein for causing evaluating of instructions of an application program, the computer readable program code means in said article of manufacture comprising:(i) computer readable program code means for causing a computer to effect evaluating an instruction of said application program to identify whether said instruction may fail when confronted with a year-2000 date, said evaluating including employing execution characteristics embodied by at least one trace record of said instruction in a trace file produced from execution of said instruction; and(ii) computer readable program code means for causing a computer to effect assigning a failure-pattern descriptor to said instruction of said application program if said evaluating determines that said instruction may fail when confronted by said year-2000 date, said failure-pattern descriptor being useful in bringing said application program into year-2000 compliance.