Been around for decades as the airline system but usable by any industry requiring massive throughput.
Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Friday, March 19, 2021, 8:16 PM, Radoslaw Skorupka <r.skoru...@hotmail.com> wrote: Old only? I have read about relatively new and small airlines, not mentioned below. And of course airline control program is not really applicable to banks and hotels. In fact I understand banks, but I'm really surprized at the hotels on the list. What transaction workload do the have??? -- Radoslaw Skorupka (looking for new job) Lodz, Poland W dniu 20.03.2021 o 01:11, Bill Johnson pisze: > The old yet still used airline control program. > > > Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone > > > On Friday, March 19, 2021, 8:03 PM, Radoslaw Skorupka > <r.skoru...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > I know the IBM-MAIN forum is mostly about z/OS, but I wanted to ask > about about z/TPF - it seems to be on topic. > > z/TPF > > TPF is the system I have never seen. > I'm pretty sure there is no TPF installation in Poland. > However I'm curious about the following: > 1. What is typical size of TPF system? I mean MIPS sizing. Is it huge or > rather small? > 2. Does TPF typically run in bare LPAR or it is usually run under z/VM, > like z/VSE is? > 3. What is the pricing of TPF? > 3.1 Is it just single price per system, I mean no paid optional features > like in z/OS? > 3.2 Is it expensive? I heard, it is much more expensive, when compared > to z/OS running on the same MIPS base. > 4. Any special settings in LPAR definitions? I remember about specia > LPAR mode - ESA/TPF or so. However I don't know any explanation of the > difference. > 5. Does it use regular CP's only? Or maybe there are some workloads > applicable to zIIP or even other processors? > 6. Does it use SAP processors more extensively than other OSes? I heard > about it. > 7. Does exist any z/TPF forum like IBM-MAIN? > 8. What are known customers? I'm not asking about company secrets, but I > know (knowledge publicly available) about Citi, Marriott, VISA, BofA, > American Airlines, BA, Sabre, Amadeus and some more. Any other known > notable customers? Banks? ATMs? Reservations? Hotels? Anything else? > > Any clue will be appreciated. I have to secret plan, I just want to > learn about it. Just curiosity. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
