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• z/TPF I/O Performance Study Results - This whitepaper provides results and analysis of an I/O performance study done at the IBM Poughkeepsie Performance Laboratory using z/TPF running on a z9 host with System Storage DS8300 attached. It illustrates the outstanding performance synergy of an "all IBM" software and hardware solution for large scale TPF applications.

• IBM z/TPF Business Perspective - Transaction Processing Facility (TPF) is IBM's specialized operating system and transaction processor for high-end, high-volume, high-bandwidth computing. Designed to excel in the most demanding operational environments, TPF is optimized for large scale computing and takes advantage of the outstanding memory and I/O management capabilities of the IBM System z family.

• z/TPF - The evolution of transaction processing to open standards (PDF) describes how businesses that rely on transaction processing can leverage centralized and specialized critical technology integrated in a competitive, open systems-based IT model.

• TPF and Financial Services describes TPF's role and success in meeting the demanding requirements of some of today's largest global financial networks.

• TPF and HVTP provides insight and understanding of the unique and demanding requirements of the High Volume Transaction Processing environment, and how TPF overcomes the ever increasing HVTP challenges.

• Optimize high-volume transaction processing on the mainframe....extraordinary demands for around-the-clock operations require rock-solid speed, availability, reliability, resiliency, scalability and performance.

• Podcast: "An introduction to z/TPF" (6:28 - 2 Aug 07) - Bill Supon talks about IBM Transaction Processing Facility products IBM's unparalleled high-end, high-volume operating systems and transaction processors. As well as TPF, he looks at z/TPF the latest version of the TPF system, enhanced to include many state-of-the-art technologies, including a 64-bit architecture.

  More: "Did you say mainframe?!" podcasts - IBM experts discuss important mainframe-related hardware and software issues. (Developerworks)

• Introduction to the z/TPF system - This information center document provides a high level perspective on the capabilities of z/TPF.

• z/TPF C/C++ Performance - "For those accustomed to programming with the z/OS C/C++ compiler for the TPF 4.1 system, the application landscape might seem identical in the z/TPF system. It is not. The performance guidelines you might have used in the past changed a little. This article explains these changes as applicable to gcc and g++."