Yes, but at least we dropped it off the front page this time. We once again remind agencies that they can test their mainframe applications for Y2K readiness. It's done on a partition of the mainframe, with its clock set ahead to simulate the four-digit year. Agencies don't have to , of course. They can cram, or keep their fingers crossed, or run their applications against an HourGlass-type product and leave it at that.
Funny things happen around the end of the year.
There always seems to be more to do than time to do it. Procrastinators may find themselves at the millennium party, singing It 's Now or Never on the karaoke. This article first ran in the October,1998, edition of this newsletter. We republish it by request. It is an ISPF information storage and retrieval system which can be used to provide quick, convenient, on-line access to messages and codes, language syntax, utility syntax, etc.