Re: system/36 vs 7.4 -- MIDRANGE-L

Well I'll be danged! Of course that could have been Tim's interpretation of what IBM said. For sure the compiler folks would have loved to get rid of it and there were some products where the transition to V6 was problematic (however a genius is Rochester came up with an OS fix that removed that problem). But I had a non-disclose in place for the compilers etc. during that period and don't recall anyone ever mentioning it other than as an "I wish ...".

Jon P

On Jan 21, 2022, at 11:01 AM, Rob Berendt <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

https://www.itjungle.com/2006/02/06/tfh020606-story02/
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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.
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When Rob? I don't remember there being any attempt to do that. PL/I compiler yes but S/36 RPG?

Jon Paris

On Jan 21, 2022, at 8:45 AM, Rob Berendt <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Shoot, they tried to get rid of the S/36rpg compiler and had to bring that back. This was not a rumor.

But the S/36 environment? I don't recall seeing that.

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You'd have to show me where you saw that. This rumor has appeared now
and then over various releases but there are A LOT of customer still
using 36E so I doubt that it will happen this release either!

- L

On 1/20/2022 11:29 PM, Miguel Peralta wrote:

hello, a favor, I once read that the 7.4 operating system is the last one that will support the system/36 environment, but I did not know if it was true or not, and I cannot find a document that says so, can you help me in this please? Or any document that talks about it?

Thanks a lot.

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