So, what's in those applications?

You should know by now, from your inventory and assessment activities, which of your applications are impacted due to two-digit years. You need to

You should have

Now you need to analyze each partition and outline what actions need to be taken to be year 2000 ready, work out a detailed plan for implementing the changes, and ensure that your objectives and goals are still valid. Part of this plan should be forming teams, determining the work unit in the partition that will be assigned to each team, and setting the schedules. Having such a detailed plan for each partition will make allocating responsibility across your teams easier.

You need to identify all the impacted modules and data in your applications and organize the work into units. You should select work units to be as self-contained as possible:

With the analysis reports from the Edge tool (see Edge. above), you are well positioned to use the Redeveloper Application Understanding (AU) and Program Understanding (PU) tools of VisualAge COBOL, Professional and VisualAge PL/I, Professional to scan and analyze the components of your work unit. Use the Year 2000 Analysis Tool, part of PU, to understand the identify date data in your programs.

What about batch?

What about IMS?

What about VSAM?

Construct data conversion programs has a sample of the described technique of rewriting datasets.

What about CICS®?

What about DFSORT?

What about DB2?

What about Language Environment®?

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