Mitrol : Year 2000

Year 2000

As we have previously indicated, and as tests by several clients and our own R&D department have confirmed, all Mitrol versions earlier than Mitrol2000 (both under MVS and VM) are not year 2000 compliant and will not function correctly with a CPU date set beyond the year 2000. The 50 year date window algorithm which allows to input data as before, using the last two digits of a year, provides only "ease of use" functionality to previous versions of Mitrol but does not provide year 2000 compliance. True year 2000 compliance for Mitrol is only possible if Mitrol is used in connection with PL1 2.3 and other libraries and systems software which are themselves year 2000 compliant and contain the year 2000 calls needed by Mitrol.

In order to address the year 2000 problem, we have incorporated year 2000 functionality into Mitrol2000, which, when used with the PLI 2.3 system and other compliant systems and software, provides true year 2000 compliance for all Mitrol applications. Mitrol2000 contains various fixes and other functionality, in addition to the year 2000 functionality, which will be useful and necessary for all clients that intend to further expand their Mitrol applications.

However, since we will not support earlier versions of Mitrol after 1998, and for various other technical reasons, we do not intend to provide a Release of Mitrol2000 compiled under PL1 2.3 that contains only the year 2000 fix without the other fixes and new functionalities.

Therefore, existing clients and users that need to run their Mitrol application into and beyond the year 2000 must move to Mitrol2000.