FilePro and dates

[Richard D. Williams]

I too have had to deal with this pesky problem.

What about a script like this;

#This script will continually set and reset PFCMARK
#to ten years advance of this year.
#
YEAR=`date '+%G'`;
YEAR=$((YEAR + 10));
PFCMARK="${YEAR:2:2}";
export PFCMARK

It works, but the issue is where to put.  It may require multiple places.

Maybe /etc/profile.d/filepro.sh, this would work on a re-boot.

How about the /appl/fp/p script, so whenever you use regular filepro, it 
wold work.

Save it as /appl/fp/lib/SET_PFCMARK to be used inside any scripts.
i.e. . /appl/fp/lib/SET_PFCMARK

Of course one would have to remove all other PFCMARK references.

I have not acted on this yet. Looking for feed back.

Richard D. Williams




This would require a re-boot
On 1/7/2020 1:12 PM, Michael Schwartz (PC Support & Services) via 
Filepro-list wrote:
>> 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
>
>       
>
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