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Start scenario Program source Input seed file Year 2000 Analysis Formatted report Analysis format Seed format Cross compilation Overview |  |
A brief scenario of Year 2000 Analysis provided by: IBM VisualAge® COBOL and IBM VisualAge® PL/I
Year 2000 Analysis can help solve the year 2000 problem by assisting you in locating, understanding, and fixing occurrences of two digit year fields in your programs. The process begins with creating an input seed file that contains a description of program variables thought to be year related. An example is all variables whose names contain the characters YEAR. This list of variables is called a seed list. Using the initial seed list as input, Year 2000 Analysis checks a COBOL or PL/I program for occurrences of variables that match the seed specification as well as any other variables affected by such occurrences. Cross compilation unit support can be used to analyze multiple program units together, and to use the information from the analysis of one program unit as input to subsequent analyses. The results are reported and can be filtered by your knowledge of the program in an iterative process designed to narrow the scope of program elements that must be inspected and changed in order to help solve the year 2000 problem. Analysis output is generated in both flat text file and browsable HTML file formats.
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