SSA Memo-don't worry it is only anecdotal
Dracon301
kind of things I have been expecting to see increase in number and also
criticality.
Cheers, AGF
"I thought you would enjoy hearing about the memo we received at work. Ten
thousand letters were sent out to parents of student beneficiaries telling them
that their child's benefits were ending as of January 1900. The memo said
there might be some inquiries, but Social Security is Y2K compliant and there
is nothing to worry about."
docd...@clark.net
Well, I'd imagine this one should get a bit of media coverage... and, if
so, that's good; it sounds like a simple hardcoded date header and one of
the reasons I used to, when doing Y2K work, did things like:
f '19' 8 72
... it gave a few false positives, true (201934-ASSESS-MISC-GRAFT-FEES and
suchlike) but it made sure that such things didn't happen to the code that
passed through my fumbling fingers.
DD
Canadian Y2K
wrote:
Possibility #1: Since they *obviously* haven't been receiving their
benefits for almost a hundred years now, they shouldn't miss them.
Possibility #2: Blame the post office. The memo was actually sent
out in late 1899 and just arrived yesterday.
Either way, problem solved.
>"I thought you would enjoy hearing about the memo we received at work. Ten
>thousand letters were sent out to parents of student beneficiaries telling them
>that their child's benefits were ending as of January 1900. The memo said
>there might be some inquiries, but Social Security is Y2K compliant and there
>is nothing to worry about."
Steve Baxter
------------------------------------------------------------
Canadian Y2K ... 'We're not *all* polite'.
http://www.albertaweb.com/year2000/index.html
------------------------------------------------------------
Mark
> "I thought you would enjoy hearing about the memo we received at work. Ten
> thousand letters were sent out to parents of student beneficiaries telling them
> that their child's benefits were ending as of January 1900. The memo said
> there might be some inquiries, but Social Security is Y2K compliant and there
> is nothing to worry about."
Dracon, this memo is entirely lacking in the substance that let's us
determine whether the file header only has a bad date, or whether some
of these letters were sent out because of date miscalculations. Were
the letters in error, or just the date?
Dracon301
writes:
>Dracon, this memo is entirely lacking in the substance that let's us
>determine whether the file header only has a bad date, or whether some
>of these letters were sent out because of date miscalculations. Were
>the letters in error, or just the date?
Got me, but if you looked at DD's contribution to the thread I think you might
reasonably suppose the latter. I am sure DD will correct me if I am mistaken,
after all he has time to kill until he *Gets a Job*. Cheers, AGF
The Goobers
As I've stated, I don't expect to Get A Job until the week-after-next
(beginning with Monday, 13 Sep 1999) due to my coming down the last week
of August... but, all that aside, the only thing I did was suggest the
Most Plausible Explanation which my limited experiences have suggested
to me... bah, I am bored, the code probably looked something like this
(but just not as... good):
...
WORKING-STORAGE SECTION.
01 FILLER PIC X(25) VALUE 'BEGIN WS OF PGM
RD34LP87'.
...
01 HDR-LIN04.
05 FILLER PIC X(68) VALUE SPACES.
05 HDR-LIN04-DT.
10 HDR-LIN04-MO-NAME PIC X(09) VALUE SPACES.
10 FILLER PIC X(01) VALUE SPACES.
10 HDR-LIN04-DD PIC 9(02) VALUE ZEROES.
10 FILLER PIC X(04) VALUE ', 19'.
10 HDR-LIN04-YY PIC 9(02) VALUE ZEROES.
...
01 MISC-STUFF.
05 MO-NAME-TBL.
10 FILLER PIC X(09) VALUE ' JANUARY'.
10 FILLER PIC X(09) VALUE ' FEBRUARY'.
10 FILLER PIC X(09) VALUE ' MARCH'.
10 FILLER PIC X(09) VALUE ' APRIL'.
10 FILLER PIC X(09) VALUE ' MAY'.
10 FILLER PIC X(09) VALUE ' JUNE'.
10 FILLER PIC X(09) VALUE ' JULY'.
10 FILLER PIC X(09) VALUE ' AUGUST'.
10 FILLER PIC X(09) VALUE 'SEPTEMBER'.
10 FILLER PIC X(09) VALUE ' OCTOBER'.
10 FILLER PIC X(09) VALUE ' NOVEMBER'.
10 FILLER PIC X(09) VALUE ' DECEMBER'.
05 MO-NAMES REDEFINES MO-LIT-TBL.
10 MO-NAME OCCURS 12 PIC X(09).
01 TODAYS-DATE.
05 TODAYS-YY PIC 99 VALUE ZEROES.
05 TODAYS-MM PIC 99 VALUE ZEROES.
05 TODAYS-DD PIC 99 VALUE ZEROES.
...
PROCEDURE DIVISION.
...
ACCEPT TODAYS-DATE FROM DATE.
MOVE MO-NAME (TODAYS-MM) TO HDR-LIN04-MO-NAME.
MOVE TODAYS-DD TO HDR-LIN04-DD.
MOVE TODAYS-YY TO HDR-LIN04-YY.
... and if that is not the way 'The Pros' do it then it is close enough
to such to allow me to earn a small living at it.
Corrections, of course, are welcome... no compiler in this email
package.
DD
Dracon301
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/business/feed/a18182-1999sep4.htm
The Goobers
>
> The Post's story on the glitch.
>
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/business/feed/a18182-1999sep4.htm
--begin quoted text:
Adams said the "cosmetic" display programs--those that contain dates not
used for age computations--have not been as rigorously tested as those
that determine eligibility.
--end quoted text
Hmmmmm... *this* sounds like a job for ISPF-EditMan!
ISPF-EditMan: 'f '19' 8 72'
DD
Dracon301
writes:
>Hmmmmm... *this* sounds like a job for ISPF-EditMan!
>
>ISPF-EditMan: 'f '19' 8 72'
>
>DD
Well, far be it from me to decide what is and what is not an occupation worthy
of such a person but as I understand it the initial item on the agenda is to
*get a Job*.
Cheers, AGF
D. Scott Secor - Millennial Infarction Mitigator
news:19990904103947...@ng-bg1.aol.com...
> The Post's story on the glitch.
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/business/feed/a18182-1999sep4.htm
Excuse me, but you must have _this_ SSA confused with the SSA that has
topped the charts on GMIT Report Cards for the past couple of years.
Holy crap! They ARE the same! If these Bozos are an example of the most
prepared Federal Agency on the planet, Gary North must be a Pollyanna! ;-)
Keep watching for my GMIT and Deep Impact updates. They should be available
any day now.
Ciao,
--
D. Scott Secor, Year 2000 Institute & Board of Inquiry, Mpls., MN USA
The latest GMIT "Report Card" (color-coded for the clue-impaired) and
Senate testimony for the clue-free are at http://y2k.board.org/g_rept.html
The Goobers
How very... *bold* of you to state such an understanding, and all that
it might say about you, so publicly, as well!
DD
Dracon301
writes:
>How very... *bold* of you to state such an understanding, and all that
>it might say about you, so publicly, as well!
>
>DD
>
Dearee me, my feeble exegetical skills would only allow me to infer from my
previous statement that perhaps assessing coding skills and assigning projects
are not currently a part of my *Job*. Having said that we have seen that said
assessment and allocation skills *are* held by you...so it seems you may also
be overqualified to get a *Management Job*. Cheers, AGF
The Goobers
>
> In article <37D1B41B...@home.com>, The Goobers <docd...@home.com>
> writes:
>
> >How very... *bold* of you to state such an understanding, and all that
> >it might say about you, so publicly, as well!
> >
> >DD
> >
>
> Dearee me, my feeble exegetical skills would only allow me to infer from my
> previous statement that perhaps assessing coding skills and assigning projects
> are not currently a part of my *Job*.
Let's see if this can be parsed a bit more finely: your feeble... skills
would only allow you to infer from your (own) statements? Being the
source of your own statements one might conclude that you would be
capable of doing more than 'inferring' from them; one might be
surprised, of course, at the Marvels of the Universe which do Abound.
As far as doing things which are not currently a part of your job...
there are benefits and liabilities incurred from such activities, of
course, and to dwell upon such matters at great length is, indeed,
praiseworthy.
> Having said that we have seen that said
> assessment and allocation skills *are* held by you...so it seems you may also
> be overqualified to get a *Management Job*.
The closest I've come to agreeing with this statement is my asserting
that I do not believe that I am capable of lowering the quality of my
thinking far enough to be a manager.
DD