Communicator e3000 MPE/iX Release 6.0 Express 1 (C.60.01) (30216-90286)

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Technical Articles

ALLBASE/BRW JCWs for Year 2000

• If set to 0, a date range of 1900 - 1999 is assumed for all two-digit years in data ﬁles.

BRWUSERCENTURYROUNDING

The following apply to BRWUSERCENTURYROUNDING:

•IfBRWCENTURYROUNDING is set to 0, then this JCW is examined.

• If set to 1 (or not set), a date range of 1950 - 2049 is assumed for all two-digit years in

parameter values and for date constants appearing in calculated items or selection

conditions. (This JCW excludes data ﬁles.)

• If set to 0, a date range of 1900 - 1999 is assumed for all two-digit years in parameter

values and for date constants appearing in calculated items or selection conditions

(excluding data ﬁles).

NOTE

The date range can affect some reports which assume that 01/01/00 is the

smallest possible year, or that 12/31/99 is the largest possible year.

For example, if the JCWs were set as the following for ALLBASE/BRW A.01.56:

BRWCENTURYROUNDING not set

BRWCENTURYROUNDING = 1

Then for A.01.57, specify the JCW settings to get the same functionality as in A.01.56:

BRWCENTURYROUNDING = 0

BRWCENTURYROUNDING not set (or = 1)

If either of these JCWs are currently speciﬁed, then you should specify both JCWs in your

logon environments prior to version A.01.57. Then when ALLBASE/BRW is upgraded to

version A.01.57 or later, the BRW application will continue to query correctly using 1900

as the base.