I worked at an airline in the 90s. I was on the OS/390 team.There was an equivalent(much larger) TPF team. it is a very unique operating system. All it could do (and did it very well) was handle high volumes of transactions and database calls. I expect it has not changed much. Everything else, like compiling programs(assembler and C) , loading NCP, backups etc. was done by OS/390.
The last I heard, there were about 30 licenses world wide, On Sat, 20 Mar 2021 at 06:35, Tom Brennan <[email protected]> wrote: > Ah... that makes sense. Then they might have been going over that 32 CP > limit fairly soon after the limit was changed. Being the first on your > block to run new code is no fun at 2 in the morning. > > On 3/19/2021 8:15 PM, Mike Schwab wrote: > > I think the limit was 32 z processors in an LPAR. They might have > > raised it by now. z15 can have 190 in high capacity order. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- Mike Shorkend [email protected] Tel: +972524208743 <https://www.linkedin.com/in/MikeShorkend/> <https://twitter.com/mikeShorkend> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
