Death of RPG38 and RPG36 -and- more!

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