[9040] in SAPr3-news
Re: Year 2000 compliance of ABABs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (tom hack)
Mon Nov 30 02:17:29 1998
To: sapr3-news@MIT.EDU
Date: Sun, 29 Nov 1998 23:16:40 -0800
From: "tom hack" <hackt@deepwell.com>
There was a post a while back about a search done in SAP looking for the
'19' string in all ABAP's. The result was over 300 programs where 19 is
hard coded. The programs all dealt with the interpretation of user input
when the century is omitted. The solution is to force all date fields to
have 4 character for the year part. This can be done in the domain
definition for dates.
SAP is year 2000 compliant - or it will work if you always supply the
century.
hackt@deepwell.com
SAPguru wrote in message <73q0bd$g5jg$1@newssvr04-int.news.prodigy.com>...
>Jos;
>
>I am on 3.1x now, and did a lot of looking around on 3.1x and IS-SW.
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>Scott
>
>Jos Ouddeken wrote in message
>>Scott,
>>What release are you working on ??
>>I agree with you that what you've found sounds 'fishy'. I'm mostly
>concerned
>>about 'hard-coding'. Because this is the worst type of programming you can
>>get.
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