Beat the Clock

Micro Focus's SoftFactory/2000 application suite employs "windowing," a technique that leaves two-digit date fields in place but adds logic that allows programs to differentiate between centuries. Windowing minimizes risk by reducing the overall effort and offers flexible and incremental implementation. Owners of COBOL-based legacy systems use SoftFactory/2000 to identify and reinterpret the logic that dictates how years are read by a system. For $35,000, the Revolve/2000 application assesses and iden tifies year-field problems, and the SmartFind module that creates the new logic costs 9 cents for each line of code written. For large legacy systems, this could mean millions of lines of code. To conduct system testing, the Workbench/2000 costs $5000.

Contact:  Micro Focus, Palo Alto, CA

Phone:    800
-872-6265

Internet: 
http://www.microfocus.com


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Logical Date Changes

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