MS4 Audit can be used to perform an assessment to establish an application's Year 2000 readiness.

MS4 Audit uses Year 2000 Tools to analyse a database's infrastructure. Once this is done, a sequence of MS4 audit activities implement the MS4 Audit Toolset.

The MS4 Audit and the MS4 Year 2000 Tools are complementary products. In particular instances, MS4 Audit can be used as a precursor analysis and reporting tool to assess the Y2K status of an application. In using the MS4 Year 2000 product to convert the application to Year 2000 ready, much of the application analysis work done using MS4 Audit will be used directly. Because of this complementary factor, some input fields on the MS4 Audit screens are processed although the inputs are only relevant to the later use of the MS4 Year 2000 product.

During a single 24-hour period, MS4 Audit accomplishes the following key steps:

• Setup
  Establish user profile, the number of applications to be defined, software key authentication, and housekeeping routines.  
  
  
• Check System Values
  Identify system values that should not change.  
  
  
• Identify Date Fields
  Identify all date fields on the application field reference files.  
  
  
• Review and confirm analysis
  (1) Examine all database and device file definitions to identify the potential date fields, (2)identify all date fields on the application field reference files, database, device files, (3) anlayse RPG source, (4) analyse database, (5) analyse device files for alpha fields, (6) review and confirm Audit Analysis.  
  
  
• Audit data gathering
  Gather info on data members, access paths, record selections, device objects, program objects, and program references.  
  
  
• Date field verification
  Check that for each field identified as a date, all the data in that field adheres to the date format specified.  
  
  
• Reporting
  Produce MS4 Audit reports.  
  
  

Each of these steps follow strict programmatic algorithms, resulting in a comprehensive Year 2000 audit of the existing AS/400 database.

Contact Millennium Solutions if you are interested in a free audit of a sample of your system. This is an immediate, cost-free database analysis that has been used on more than 500 midrange systems worldwide.