Problem Description:
An error is encountered when processing certain date formats in the System 1032 DUMP command. The error occurs in formats 2, 3, and 4 when the output length of the data field forces a 2-digit year to be produced. For example, given a dataset and record descriptor defined as:

CREATE DS Y2K

ATTR DT DATE

END

RD Y2KBUG

FIELD DT DATE FORMAT 4 LENGTH 6

END

This will produce a dump file with dates in yymmdd format.

The expected behavior is that dates within the 100-year span defined by $CENTURY_BOUNDARY are valid dates and all other dates are invalid. For example, given $CENTURY_BOUNDARY=1950, the dates from 1950-2049 should be valid. All other dates should produce the DUMCNVERR error message.

The error is that the comparison of the dates to be dumped to $CENTURY_BOUNDARY is incorrect. The comparison is taking place against the century portion of $CENTURY_BOUNDARY. This means that for the above example, $CENTURY_BOUNDARY is being treated as the year 1900 and not 1950. This results in dates from 1900 - 1949 being incorrectly dumped without error and dates from 2000 - 2049 being rejected.

Solution

This problem has been fixed and a fix file has been placed on the CCA OpenVMS FTP site FOX.CCA-INT.COM. You can use anonymous FTP to connect to FOX; the files to download are in the S1032V97-UPDATES subdirectory and are named S1032SHR_V9711.EXE_xxx where 'xxx' is VAX or AXP. See the AAAREADME.TXT file in that directory for how to download the file. An example download is shown below

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