Year 2000 Compliance

Technical Bulletin: FMS Products and Year 2000 Compliance

FMS has done a great deal of research on the Year 2000 problem as it relates to Microsoft Access, Microsoft Office, and Microsoft Visual Basic. We have recently finished a top-down review of Year 2000 compliance in our Total Access and Total VB product lines. All products are certified as Year 2000 compliant with the exception of two older products, for which patches are available.

Year 2000 Compliance Definition

For the purposes of describing Year 2000 compliance in our Total Access and Total VB products, we use the following definition of Year 2000 compliance:

"Year 2000 compliance signifies that the software will accept four-digit years on date input. Any operations in Total Access and Total VB software that process dates works correctly with four-digit years and correctly span the century boundary without problems."

FMS Products that Require Updates

Two Total Access products have been identified as having Year 2000 issues. These are the older 16-bit versions of Total Access Components 2.x and Total Access Agent 1.x. You can download the updates for these programs free of charge from our web site.

• Total Access Components 2.x Update
  If you have Total Access Components 2.x installed, you should download the update for this product. Click here to go to the updates page. This patch corrects a problem in Clock Control that prevents dates from working after 1999.
• Total Access Agent Update
  If you have Total Access Agent version 1.x (16-bit) installed, you should download the update. Click here to go to the updates page. This update fixes a problem where four digit year entry on the snapshot inquiry and log file inquiry forms is not working correctly.

If you have Total Access Agent version 1.x (32-bit) installed, you should contact Sales Department for the latest 32-bit release of this product. The latest 32-bit software available resolves four digit year issues with Total Access Agent.

All other Total Access and Total VB programs are Year 2000 compliant and do not require updates.

Where To Go For More Information

The following resources are available for more information on FMS products, and Year 2000 issues:

• Go to the FMS Products Page for information about all FMS software products.
• Visit our Microsoft Access/Microsoft Office Year 2000 Resource Center for more Y2K information.
• Read our Year 2000 Whitepapers for information on the Year 2000 issues in Access, VB, and Office applications.
• Learn about Total Access Inspector 2000, our Year 2000 compliance tools for Microsoft Access Databases.

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