MS4 Audit installs and sets up quickly, following the definitions of applications and the entering of an encrypted security key.

Following a successful MS4 Audit installation, the program uses Year 2000 Tools to analyse a database's infrastructure. Following the analysis, a series of specialised reports identify non Y2K features of the database being scrutinized.

MS4 Audit can be used to make a precursor analysis of the Y2K status of an application after following specific routines, including:

• 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.  

Millennium Solutions offer a free audit of AS/400 databases. This immediate, cost-free analysis has been used on more than 500 midrange systems worldwide.