Countdown to the millennium -- 1,000 days to go.COLUMBUS, Ohio--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 4, 1997-- New Entry into "Year 2000 Problem Year 2000 problem, Y2K problem, or millennium bug, in computer science, a design flaw in the hardware or software of a computer that caused erroneous results when working with dates beyond Dec. 31, 1999. " Market, DB-Net Inc. Offers A Non-Traditional Approach To Modifying Date Faults in Legacy COBOL COBOL: see programming language. COBOL in full Common Business-Oriented Language. High-level computer programming language, one of the first widely used languages and for many years the most popular language in the business community. Code With Saturday marking 1,000 days to the turn of the millennium, the software migration experts at Columbus-based DB-Net(TM) Inc. announce Sweet 2000(TM), a software toolkit designed to greatly speed up and automate the process of fixing the "Year 2000 Problem" on the vast majority of the world's larger computers. "The core of the Sweet 2000 toolkit is our patent-pending code converter that permits year 2000 compliance while retaining a six-character date format that contains eight-digit date information in the source code with a traditional eight-character date in the database," said DB-Net President Steven Verona. "Using the Sweet 2000 approach, programmers will avoid the errors and omissions errors and omissions n. short-hand for malpractice insurance which gives physicians, attorneys, architects, accountants and other professionals coverage for claims by patients and clients for alleged professional errors and omissions which amount to negligence. associated with traditional conversions and rewrites that focus on changing dates in the source code from six digits to eight digits," he said. "This, in combination with the other parts of the toolkit, will mean that it will be feasible for companies to actually solve their Year 2000 problems in time for the turn of the millennium. The bottom line is faster, more accurate, automated conversion to Year 2000 compliance," said Verona. The Sweet 2000 suite of tools includes a COBOL code converter, code analyzer, terminal emulation Using software in a desktop machine to make it perform like a hardware terminal. The emulated terminal is typically in the VT100-500 family, designed originally by Digital Equipment. program, subroutine library Noun 1. subroutine library - (computing) a collection of standard programs and subroutines that are stored and available for immediate use program library, library , full screen text editor and file transfer utilities, as well as a two-day certified training seminar. The kit is designed to be applied to virtually any COBOL source code, which accounts for more than 75 percent of the business applications in use today. Now in the final stages of beta testing (programming) beta testing - Testing a pre-release (potentially unreliable) version of a piece of software by making it available to selected users. This term derives from early 1960s terminology for product cycle checkpoints, first used at IBM but later standard throughout the , Sweet 2000 is aimed at increasing Y2K See Y2K problem and Y2K compliant. Y2K - Year 2000 consultants' capacity to address multiple client conversions, as well as being used by in-house programmers. More information is available on DB-Net's Website at http://www.db-net.com . DB-Net has provided software migration services for more than seven years. Based in Columbus, DB-Net uses a patent-pending suite of tools to automate its migration services, providing a turn-key solution to software migration. Members of the company have completed migrations on Texas Instruments, AT&T, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) and Hewlett-Packard systems. NOTE TO EDITORS: The two e-mail addresses below contain an "at" symbol, after "sverona" and after "droth." This symbol may not appear properly in some systems. CONTACT: DB-Net Inc., Columbus Steven Verona, 614/436-6565, ext. 15 (Office) 614/440-3712 (Cellular) sverona@db-net.com or Lord, Sullivan & Yoder, Columbus Delena Roth, 614/825-1763 (Office) 614/890-7684 (Home) droth@lsy.com |
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