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The Bureau of Indian Affairs has nearly finished fixing its Year 2000 software problems using a tool called Millennium Solutions from Data Integrity Inc., Waltham, Mass.
BIA officials have finished renovating most of BIA's major systems and plan this week to test the systems to make sure they will work as they did before the fix. BIA is the first federal customer for DII, which is just beginning to market its product to federal customers.
Millennium Solutions is a PCbased solution in which users download chunks of code from a mainframe to a desktop computer. The software -- which works with Cobol, PL/1 and Assembler languages -- searches for any line of code that involves a date and some sort of calculation - not only addition, subtraction and other arithmetic but "greater than" and "less than" functions. The software then fixes that code by adding two extra calculations - the addition, twice, of 50.
For example, a noncompliant system calculating the age of someone in the Year 2001 would subtract the birth...