Mighty Mainframe OS IBM z/TPF excels at transaction processing
For decades—essentially since birth of the IBM System/370 in the early 1970s—mainframers have known and used the three primary members of the mainframe OS family: z/OS, z/VM and z/VSE.
Ask a hundred mainframers to name z Systems OSes and at least 99 of them might only mention those three. And seek the best solution for sustained mission-critical high-volume transaction processing against massive databases—the strategic foundation for leaders in many consumer and business serving industries—the answer will likely be z/OS running CICS or IMS, combined with middleware.
But simultaneously and quietly, as these systems evolved through multiple generations to current "z/" versions, another powerful environment was little known in the mainstream community, even though it was critical to multiple key industries and was used on, helped market and influenced evolution of the biggest of IBM's big iron.
That's the mainframe system software sibling: IBM z/Transaction Processing Facility (TPF).
http://destinationz.org/Mainframe-Solution/Business-Case/Mighty-Mainframe-OS http://tinyurl.com/j83h7at -- Gabriel Goldberg, Computers and Publishing, Inc. [email protected] 3401 Silver Maple Place, Falls Church, VA 22042 (703) 204-0433 LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/gabegold Twitter: GabeG0 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
