No, IBM now supply a GUI built on Eclipse, called TPF Toolkit used for program/macro development and maintenance. PDSs and CMS are no longer used as program/macro/etc. names can be greater than 8 characters. CMS still is used for various Tools/Reports. I believe z/TPF went away from z/OS to Linux is due to limits in the output from the Linkage Editor/Binder. z/TPF now uses ELF for linking the Control Program and creating other large tables.
Rudy de Vré TPF DataBase Team HP Enterprise Systems -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2013 2:12 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: z/TPF question On Tue, 13 Aug 2013 23:27:12 +0000, De Vre, Rudy wrote: >z/TPF Systems are now generated and maintained via Linux(usually a guest of >z/VM), not z/OS anymore. > Interesting. Is CMS still needed to administer CP, or can Linux handle that, also? And I wonder why z/TPF went to Linux rather than CMS. (Of course the economics works against z/OS unless the site needs z/OS for other purposes.) -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
