Re: Automate your Forms 3 conversion to Year 2000 compliance(Y2K)

bsteele_at_hillbilly.com (Biff Steel) wrote:

>As part of a project to convert a client's forms 3 programs to
>support the year 2000 we have developed an automated process to
>convert your forms. It will implement the code to allow users to enter
>and query dates such that they will always be saved to the database as
>the year closest to the year 2000 (1950 - 2050). The program will NOT
>fully convert your forms. If you have some types of date math and date
>comparisons in PL/SQL code in triggers, this program will not convert
>the code. We can however identify suspect code and show you how to
>convert it.

>We have decided to sell this service at prices well below what it
>would take to have a programmer do the work manually. And since we
>have tested it on over 400 forms in an > 100 million dollar / yr
>manufacturing plant with full accounting applications, we have found a
>number of subtle issues that you won't easily find and these issues
>are not covered in the Oracle white paper available on their web-site.

I always thought NG's were meant to _share_ knowledge ?! If you really know something we don't, then either tell us or go to another NG !

Frank Received on Wed May 06 1998 - 00:49:12 CDT