Has Indian Affairs found a silver date code bullet?
By Christopher J. DorobekAug 03, 1998 BIA computer specialists Rick Namm and Susan Ellison use Millennium Solution to fix bureau date code. There may not be a silver bullet with which to slay the year 2000 problem, but at least one agency official believes a small company s remediation software comes close. Millennium Solution, from Data Integrity Inc. of Waltham, Mass., greatly sped up the Bureau of Indian Affairs date code work, said Ed Socks, BIA s year 2000 project manager. The software fixes date code by redoing the math formulas, rather than by requiring date codes to have four-digit year entries, Socks said. Interior Department officials were skeptical when they first watched the Digital Integrity tool at work, Socks said, because the solution seemed too easy. It was only when bureau officials ran through 8,000 lines of code in four minutes using the tool that Mona Infield, BIA branch chief, said she began to take notice. Date code remediation is usually labor-intensive, requiri
