Re: S/36 discontinued?

[rob@xxxxxxxxx]

Three things:
1 - M/36.  It's a special environment that is different than STRS36.  In 
M/36 you have no access to OS/400 at all.  More like a really early 
version of lpar.  This died some releases back.  I ?think? after V4R5,
2 - Support for the regular S/36 environment - STRS36 or STRS36PRC.  No 
foreseeable plans to drop this.
3 - Support to compile RPG36 programs.  IBM was planning on dropping this 
but read this statement:
RPG and COBOL System/36™ and System/38™ compatible compilers, July 2006
IBM plans to continue to ship and support the following S/36 and S/38 
compiler options as part of WebSphere Development Studio for iSeries in 
the release after V5R4. IBM is withdrawing the previous planning statement 
that said V5R4 will be the final release to include these compilers in the 
Software Maintenance or Software Subscription contract.

5722-WDS Option 32 - System/36 Compatible RPG II
5722-WDS Option 33 - System/38 Compatible RPG III
5722-WDS Option 42 - System/36 Compatible COBOL
5722-WDS Option 43 - System/38 Compatible COBOL

From:
http://www-304.ibm.com/jct01004c/systems/support/i/planning/upgrade/v5r4/planstmts.html

Rob Berendt