Ah, got it; please excuse my cluelessness when it comes
to Cobol. I didn't realize that it was a y2k problem. BTW,
SJ Mercury has a nice article on the D10k problem; where hundreds
of electronic trading programs think that 10k on the Dow is actually
a zero.
http://www.sjmercury.com/business/tech/docs/052338.htm
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Forget the ``Y2K'' Chicken Little
forecasters who say the world's buzzing information flow will come
to a grinding halt when the clocks turn over into the Year 2000 --
``D 10 K'' could be coming faster.