Official Year 2000 (y2k) summary

Official Year 2000 (y2k) summary

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Description

Resolution:
InConcert Inc. and Year 2000 Compliance

At InConcert, Inc. we understand the seriousness that Year 2000 compliance
has on the mission critical applications operated by our enterprise
customers. As a result, we have proactively undertaken a comprehensive Year
2000 certification effort to ensure that our products correctly handle date
input and output, date comparisons, date sorting, and any operations based
on dates or date computations.

To date, InConcert Inc. has undertaken taken the following concrete steps to
assure Year 2000 compliance in our products. The Year 2000 test methodology
described below has been performed on the currently available version of
InConcert v3.6.2.

1. A detailed engineering walkthrough of our server product's 3-tier
client/server architecture and internal functional design was completed to
detect any potential Year 2000 problems. The results of this review indicate
that InConcert's products will be Year 2000 compliant as long as the
operating systems and database management systems they run on and
interoperate with are Year 2000 compliant.

2. Complete testing of all user interface fields containing date values in
InConcert's PC and Unix-based Graphical User Interfaces, the Batch Registry
and Administration Utilities has been completed. These tests included the
entry of date values in a variety of 2-digit and 4-digit formats. Internal
to InConcert, dates are represented in a format that explicitly encodes
century information. Unambiguous algorithms are used to translate 2-digit
data entry representations to this internal representation. The results of
these tests demonstrated that all of the date values entered into
InConcert's user interfaces were correctly handled during Year 2000 testing.

3. Complete testing of all Application Programming Interfaces (API)
functions that manipulate date objects has been completed. C and C++
procedures and methods were developed to test date specific mathematical
operations, comparison, sorting and interval calculations before, during and
after the Year 2000. Tests were also performed to ensure proper execution of
calculations involving Leap years. All tests of the InConcert API were
completed without Year 2000 errors on both UNIX and NT.

4.  In addition, InConcert has tested its software licensing technology for
Year 2000 compliance. This software package, called FLEXlm(r) is licensed
from a vendor called GLOBEtrotter Software. InConcert has tested this
third-party package with license expiration dates entered in 2-digit and
4-digit formats. All Year 2000 tests have been completed without error on
UNIX platforms. NT based testing of FLEXlm is underway.

5. The system clock of UNIX and NT-based systems hosting InConcert was set
in a variety of configurations shortly before and after the Year 2000 to
ensure that InConcert operates correctly during and after the transition to
the next century. These tests are currently underway and should be completed
shortly. To date, no Year 2000 errors have surfaced.

InConcert Inc. has taken every opportunity possible to ensure that our
products are Year 2000 compliant and will continue to perform Y2K testing
for all future product releases. The results of our Year 2000 testing to
date indicate that InConcert's User Interface, Administration, Application
Programming Interfaces and Software Licensing components are fully Year 2000
compliant and operate without error.

Environment

Product: TIBCO InConcert Version: 3.7 C OS: All --------------------

Issue/Introduction

Official Year 2000 (y2k) summary