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

If IBM would make available the newest compilers for older releases, it
would go a long way to help.  In the MS world, the latest and greatest
compilers will work on any Win32 OS.

Tommy Briggs

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Subject: 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/futur
esftwr.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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