Year 2000
Tim Jenkins
T.J. Shuflin
> Does anyone have any information on compliance for Q&A ver 4.0?
Please visit The Quick Answer Online at http://www.quickanswer.com
for information concerning Q&A and Y2K, and a LOT more info on Q&A in
general!
T.J.
Kim Leet (Symantec)
<980822190105.2803230660@servicenews>...
> Does anyone have any information on compliance for Q&A ver 4.0?
>
Hi Tim,
Q&A for DOS or Windows is not year 2000 compliant. If you currently have
date fields in Q&A that only use a 2 digit year, then Q&A will think that
the year 00 is the year 1900, and not the year 2000.
You can, however, easily change your date format in Q&A to instead use a
four digit year format. And if you do that, you will not have any problem
at all with the year 2000. Since I don't know which version you have here
are the instructions for both Q&A for DOS and Windows.
To do this in Q&A for Windows, go to the SELECT menu and choose DATABASE
STRUCTURE. Then go to the DATABASE menu, and choose GLOBAL FORMAT OPTIONS
to select one of the 4 digit year options. After you make this change,
years will be displayed with four digits. And any new dates entered will
have to be entered with 4 digits, thus effectively getting around the year
2000 problem.
No versions of Q&A are certified to be year 2000 compliant. To be fully
year 2000 complaint, programs have to be able to handle the year 2000
correctly with dates that have two digit years. Q&A will consider the
year 00 to be 1900.
For Q&A for DOS, from the Q&A DOS Main Menu, go to FILE, DESIGN FILE,
REDESIGN FILE, and select your database. Then press the F10 key twice to
get to the GLOBAL FORMAT OPTIONS screen. Then simply go down to the DATE
option, and choose one of the format numbers that uses a 4 digit year.
That will then convert your date fields to four digits.
Note, you may also need to adjust the field length on the form itself to
fit the two extra numbers in. So do double check the field on the form as
well. If there is a closing greater than symbol on the field length ( >
), then you may need to move that over a couple of spaces to fit the extra
digits.
Symantec is no longer developing Q&A, so no updates to the software are
planned. We made a difficult business decision some time ago to not pursue
the database software market, and instead concentrate on other markets
where we can be market leaders and be more competitive.
Hope you are having a great day!
Kim Leet Senior Data Recovery Technician [Symantec Corp.]
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