Finding and Fixing Your Year 2000 Problem: A Guide for Small Businesses and Organizations - Softcover

Feiler, Jesse; Butler, Barbara

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0122513355 ISBN 13: 9780122513350

Publisher: Academic Press, 1998

Synopsis

This book gives you a step-by-step guide for everything you need to do to prepare for the computer problems associated with the twenty-first century. Feiler and Butler show you how to analyze your problem (and the problems of others that will affect you), how to set up a year 2000 project to manage the problem, how to track down problems in software ranging from spreadsheets and word processors to C and Cobol programs, how to choose your solutions, and how to test that they work.
Practical details are provided in three primary areas:
1. Description of the various problems: two-digit years, leap year, embedded microprocessors, etc.
2. Thorough analysis of business processes - accounting, marketing, production, etc. - and the types of computer systems involved, as well as the problems that affect them
3. Specific steps that can be taken to fix problems in programs - Cobol, C, C++, etc. - in productivity tools, such as spreadsheets, word processors, and the like, and software packages, including databases and integrated software
Programming techniques such as bridging, modification, and encapsulation are described. The book shows readers how to incorporate these details into a well-managed Year 2000 project, tracking the problems, attempted solutions, tests, and monitoring of performance as critical dates occur.

* Includes The Year 2000 Checklist: an appendix in spreadsheet form for use as a diagnostic tool to assist in planning solutions
* Features in-depth discussion of "Problems," such as two-digit years, embedded dates, data entry dates, and embedded limits
* Teaches readers how to accurately read and modify legacy code, including Cobol, Fortran, C, and Object-oriented Applications (Java and C++)
* Provides discussion of various "Systems" -- such as Payroll, Inventory Management, client databases, Internet, and LAN systems -- that are vulnerable to the Year 2000 problem, and how to plan, convert, and test solutions

About this title

About the Author

Jesse Feiler is Software Director of Philmont Software Mill. Co-author of Finding and Fixing Your Year 2000: A Guide for Small Businesses and Organizations with Barbara Butler, and the author of the upcoming FileMaker Pro and the World Wide Web, Jesse has also written Rhapsody Developer's Guide, Cyberdog, and Real World Apple Guide. He has served as a consultant, author, and speaker for many prestigious businesses, including the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Prodigy, Kodak, Young & Rubicam, and Apple Computer, Inc.

Barbara Butler has been an information technology professional for over 20 years, having developed large automated business systems for the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and Merrill Lynch. These systems covered a broad range of areas within the financial services industry including securities and funds processing, global banking activities, operations, financial processes, research and analytical efforts, administration, and human resources. Her technical experience includes business software development on mainframes, in client/server environments, and in personal computing as well as the integration of the various technologies and telecommunications.

Edition details

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0122513355
• ISBN 13: 9780122513350
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 446