New Year 2000 tools surface for MPE/iX Omni Solutions (800.935.0101) announced TimeWarp/3000, a software program developed by Shawn Gordon that creates virtual date and time environments for Year 2000 testing. Being the third entry in the virtual date derby, the product will try to distinguish itself with claims of being the only product to intercept all date/time references from programs, the CI and the Posix shell. Complex applications which are not launched out of systems or operations management will benefit from the program’s Automatic Date/Time inheritance for streamed jobs, according to early reports from our TestDriver. It integrates with Vesoft’s MPEX, and uses an on-line manager program to configure rules, view and manage log files, and a Warp Console to see all Job/Sessions currently warped, along with their current virtual date/time and logging options. We’ve also heard a new Time Shift 2000 tool is coming from G.R. Helm Inc. (916.933.9669) that analyzes and ages date data fields in an IMAGE database. Gordon Helm said the software “has been designed to automatically find and examine all date fields contained in a database, with no user input or directions.” Copyright 1998 The 3000 NewsWire. All rights reserved