To do this, contact each manufacturer via phone call or web site. The Infoliant data base is available through subscription to help here as well. Then make the required fixes and test each unit. Then, keep monitoring the manufacturer information for changes and updates. The difficulty and the payoff Obviously, the major hurdles to successfully accomplishing such a plan are time and utilization of personnel.
Costs can be much less than mainframe remediation, but still are real and significant.
A recent article in Datamation pointed out the advantages of early Year 2000 efforts. The fact is that financial institutions that wait will pay a premium not only in terms of costs to solve the problem, but also in terms of other opportunities lost to faster-moving competitors.