Reporting Agent in 2004s

Hi Experts,
I want build new solution in my BW. This solution have to execute WEB-Templates and saves the results to file system.
I thought, I will use the functionality of Reporting Agent - WEB Templates Precalculation + some own programming for it. But, we will have 2004s soon. I have seen, that in 2004s Reporting Agent is no more avaliable from the Standard Menu. RA is still there (tcode - RSREP), but no more from Menu.
Does it mean, there is a new functionality in 2004s, which displaces RA.
Thanks
Wojciech Nowicki

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