Re: Death of RPG38 and RPG36 -and- more!

Any idea how this will effect system/36 type menus?


On Thu, 9 Feb 2006 08:27:17 -0500, rob wrote
> Check out the article at
> http://www.itjungle.com/tfh/tfh020606-story02.html
> 
> Quoting from the article:
> "First up, IBM says that WebSphere Development Studio for iSeries 
> V5R4 will be the last release to ship with RPG II and COBOL 
> compilers that are compatible with the System/36 and RPG III and 
> COBOL compilers that are compatible with the System/38. IBM is 
> recommending that customers who have deployed System/36 and 
> System/38 applications in the S36EE or S38EE emulation environments 
> to switch to ILE RPG and get it over with. IBM did say that these 
> old compilers would be available as a non-warranted PRPQ in the next 
> release of i5/OS, but this is not a place you want to go."
> 
> I assume that means that source types CBL36, CBL38, RPG36 and RPG38 
> will no longer compile.  What about RPG?  That would be nice also. 
>  Something to force the major vendors to revamp to RPGLE.
> 
> In order to give people more time to prepare IBM really needs to put 
> this at http://www-
03.ibm.com/servers/eserver/support/iseries/planning/upgrade/futuresftwr.html
> 
> The words already out, so it's not like putting the information 
> there will steal the thunder from the many nice enhancements in V5R4.
> 
> Rob Berendt
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