Year 2000 Compliance Statement

The British Standards Institute (BSI) has published DISC PD2000-1: A Definition of Year 2000 Conformity Requirements. As of July 1, 1997, neither the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), nor any U.S.-based industry group, to our knowledge, have published a separate definition, or endorsed this definition; however, Quality America, Inc. feels this definition is fully encompassing and provides a suitable compliance definition.

The definition is as follows (an Amplification of the Definition and Rules is also provided):

Year 2000 conformity shall mean that neither performance nor functionality is affected by dates prior to, during and after the year 2000. In particular:

Rule 1. No value for current date will cause any interruption in operation.

Rule 2. Date-based functionality must behave consistently for dates prior to, during and after year 2000.

Rule 3. In all interfaces and data storage, the century in any date must be specified either explicitly or by unambiguous algorithms or inferencing rules.

Rule 4. Year 2000 must be recognized as a leap year.

OPERATIONS: QA, Inc. has determined that all critical business operations, including critical supplier processes and internal sales, support, development, purchasing and accounting functions, will not be adversely affected by any Year 2000 issues. This plan included reviews and testing of internally-developed and purchased software and hardware.

PRODUCTS: QA, Inc., as publisher of these software applications, has determined the following:

SPC-PC IV, SPC-PC IV Starter Kit:

The following information is offered in addition to the compliance definition to clarify the functionality:

1. The Date format for columns in the Data Editor allows only two digit year entry (00-99).
2. When user-defined Data Editor equations, sorting, or Chart Option queries are dependent on Date-formatted columns:
1. 70 to 99 are inferred as 1970 to 1999,
2. 00 to 35 are inferred as 2000 to 2035,
3. Numeric-formatted columns infer all other year dates as the value "0" (zero),
4. Character-formatted columns infer all other year dates as "N/A" when the Treat blank cells as 0.0 in spreadsheet formulas option in the Preferences dialog is turned OFF
5. the available year ranges are built into the Microsoft and Borland libraries.
3. "Conversion" of Date-formatted data is not generally required; however, years entered as 01 through 69 in prior versions were valued imprecisely near zero when used in equations, chart queries, and sorting, and must be re-evaluated for consistency to current functionality.
4. ODBC Query results are created as Character columns. As such, the date format as provided by the ODBC driver is displayed as a string of characters. Similarly, any sorting or query criteria applied to a Date field is conducted within the ODBC driver.

Note: ODBC drivers are not provided, developed or supported by Quality America, Inc. Year 2000 Compliance of ODBC drivers must be separately ascertained by the user.

All Products: The release specified below is determined to be compliant. Call for upgrade prices, or check www.qualityamerica.com/Support/dload-upgrd.htm for downloads.