MCD's Budget Development System (BDS) is a series of programs developed by MCD to assist in the budget projections and preparations for future fiscal years.  It is also used to monitor current fiscal year budget statuses.

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MCD has completed Y2K readiness on BDS by using a "windowing" technique which treats all dates with year 00 thru 10 as 20xx and years 11 thru 99 as 19xx.  Extensive use of Ravel Software Inc's UNRAVEL 2000 COBOL tool was used in this process.
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Debbie Thompson and Frank Tulkan are the BDS product managers representing users and technical support respectively.  Frank has performed year 2000 corrections with unit tests of each program.  In addition, Frank has modified BDS to enable new functions as required for employee groups and other new fiscal year requirements.  Debbie and her team have completed comprehensive systems testing of all programs.  Special thanks to John Taylor from Frank, Debbie and me for his exacting testing and highest quality of work during actual online and batch reporting tests completed by John. Most excellent job John, Frank and Debbie.
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As of May 28th, the MCD Budget Development System (BDS) was placed into
production.  For the past several weeks, all uses of BDS have been with the Year 2000 ready system.  No problems observed nor reported.
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The official creation of 99-00 budget is scheduled for July.  No problems are anticipated.  During testing, the 99-00 and 00-01 budget file creations and maintenance were tested with success.
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Great job everyone...
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	Jim
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For additional information regarding BDS and its Y2K readiness status, contact the BDS product managers (Dave Steele or Frank Tulkan), or MCD's Y2K project leader (Jim DeVere)
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