FilePro and dates

[Michael Schwartz (PC Support & Services)]

> FP Tech sent out an email the other day about resetting the pfcmark
variable

[snip] 

> Richard Kreiss
> GCC Consulting

Hi Richard:

     I recommend you set the PFCMARK as far ahead as possible.  For most of
my customers, I've set it to "50".  (Hopefully I will be retired by 2050...)
<grin>  

    For a few customers, especially in the insurance industry, I've had to
set PFCMARK as low as "23".

    After you change PFCMARK in the config file:

Rebuild any indexes that have "short" dates (mdy, mdy/, etcetera) in the
indexes.  If you don't do this, you may get very odd results.  (I'm sure
*ALL OF YOU* rebuild all your indexes and freechains anyway on a regular
basis.  I can't count the number of hours of troubleshooting that I've spent
because of corrupt indexes or freechains...) 

Look through the customer's code (especially Linux cron jobs or Windows .bat
files) for anyplace that PFCMARK is set to some different date that would
override the PFCMARK setting in the config file.

As long as you are looking through all their processing tables for PFCMARK,
you may want to note any places where there are any other hard-coded dates
that will eventually cause you problems.

Happy 2020!

Mike Schwartz