Prior to this assignment, I focused only on the IBM Enterprise Server and I felt that we could provide the system to the campus on 1 or 2 weekends with the system dates set to a date in 2000. This environment could be used to confirm the work being done now in ACT Systems to correct Y2K date issues. We would severely impact weekend batch production and fail to demonstrate due diligence for the reasons I have outlined below.
Additional funding is required.
A s happy as we are with our date simulation products, Date Simulator and Tic-Toc, these products do not trap all methods to get the date from the system. While our applications may not be retrieving the date with these other methods, our ISV software and other system level utilities certainly do. Our first set of critical dates for IFIS to be tested would be our closing process for fiscal 1999 and the beginning of our fiscal 2000. Some of the same dates and additional dates will be required for ISIS testing. This will be true for PPS as well.