Fall COMMON, San Antonio, TX - Nexgen/2K, Inc. announces a century dating solution designed for companies that develop and maintain their AS/400® applications using the AS/SET CASE tool from System Software Associates, Inc. (SSA). Focus/A2K, a new add-on to the widely successful Nexgen/2K and Focus/2000 software products, provides an efficient, rapid, and reliable path to century compliance for companies that have an ongoing investment in AS/SET development.

Focus/A2K simplifies clients' future development work in AS/SET by making century corrections to their AS/SET Action Diagrams (program logic) and Data Models (database definitions).

Focus/A2K proves to be an especially important option for users of SSA's BPCS® Version 5.1. This version consists almost entirely of AS/SET-generated programs. Before the release of Focus/A2K, users of this version were looking at a forced upgrade to BPCS® Version 6.0.

"SSA has stranded the BPCS® Version 5.1 user base with no affordable way to make their AS/SET-based applications century-compliant," said Dan Mitchell, Chief Technology Officer and Principal of Nexgen. "Companies that do not wish to upgrade to BPCS® V6.0 now have a complete and cost-effective alternative in Focus/A2K: an alternative that lets them retain the investment they have made in AS/SET code."

Companies that have purchased Focus/A2K include DuPont Merck Pharmaceutical Company of Wilmington, Delaware and The Standard Products Company of Detroit, Michigan.

Focus/A2K Technical Specifications

Focus/A2K automatically synchronizes Repository data models against newly expanded dates in the associated database files.

Focus/A2K does not alter the way dates and year fields are presented on screens and reports. Dates previously presented as 6 digits will continue to be presented as 6 digits. Year fields previously presented as 2 digits will continue to be presented as 2 digits.

As in Nexgen's RPG and CL conversion products, Focus/A2K automatically makes corrections to the program logic (action diagrams), rather than just identifying where changes need to be made.

All changes to action diagrams are marked using conventional notation. No original statements are ever physically deleted from the action diagram.

No negative impact on future development: following the Focus/A2K date conversion, users will continue to handle all AS/SET edit and build activities within the original AS/SET tool environment.

Focus/A2K analyzes and redefines data structures as needed to provide substring processing required for detailed date manipulations.

Focus/A2K intercepts and corrects defective native AS/SET date functions including %CMD, %MDC, %DMC and %NOD.

Nexgen Software Technologies, Inc. is headquartered in Naperville, Illinois, a Chicago suburb in the area's High Technology Corridor. Since 1990, Nexgen has focused on providing implementation and custom modification services to users of BPCS® from SSA and PRMS™ from Computer Associates. Nexgen/2K, Inc. was founded in 1997 to market Focus/2000 as a millennium solution for the BPCS® market and Nexgen/2K as a millennium solution for other AS/400 software.

For more information, contact Gerard Wolf at 630.300.6000, via fax at 630.300.6122, or via email at n2kpr@nexgeninfo.com.

Nexgen/2K and Focus/2000 are trademarks of Nexgen Software Technologies, Inc.

AS/400 is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corp.

AS/SET is a trademark and BPCS® is a registered trademark of System Software Associates, Inc.

PRMS™ is a registered trademark of Computer Associates International, Inc.