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IBM Software - z/Transaction Processing Facility (z/TPF) - Overview

IBM z/TRANSACTION PROCESSING FACILITY ENTERPRISE EDITION 1.1

ANNOUNCEMENT - OCTOBER 7, 2004

z/Transaction Processing Facility Enterprise Edition (z/TPF) V1.1 (5748-T15) is a high-performance operating system specifically designed to provide high availability for demanding high volume, real-time transaction processing for mission critical e-business applications. z/TPF runs on and exploits IBM's zSeries servers, an infrastructure offering for transaction processing with high quality of service demands.

As the next generation of on-demand transaction processing systems, z/TPF has been developed on the architecture of TPF 4.1. TPF 4.1 is widely used in Travel, Banking/Finance, and Public Sector industry segments and is well suited to business computing environments requiring:

  • Management of extreme transaction volumes - z/TPF can process tens of thousands of transactions per second from hundreds of thousands of end users. Additionally, A z/TPF loosely coupled complex can scale to as many as 32 zSeries servers.
  • High reliability/availability - For mission critical applications, downtime can effect losses of millions of dollars an hour, not only from revenue loss, but also from bad publicity and dissatisfied customers.
  • Fast response time - When response time is critical to help lower call center costs or enhance customer satisfaction, z/TPF is designed to provide fast and consistent response across predictable and unpredictable peaks.
  • Low Cost - z/TPF offers a low cost per transaction for high-volume real-time transactions. This capability alone represents a competitive advantage for delivery of business services in the marketplace.
  • Efficiency - z/TPF supports IBM's 64-bit z/Architecture with the use of 64-bit real addresses and 64-bit virtual addresses enabling large-scale memory spaces permitting large applications and large memory tables.
  • Open development environment - z/TPF also uses the GNU tool chain. z/TPF can share applications, tooling, and development infrastructure with the most common open system available, Linux.
  • Flexible cost structure by supporting IBM's Workload License Charges. WLC is a monthly license pricing metric designed to support today's on demand business requirements. It allows customers to grow hardware capacity without necessarily increasing IBM software charges and manage IBM software cost by managing workload utilization.

The z/Transaction Processing Facility Database Facility (z/TPFDF) (5748-F15), provides database management functions to z/TPF:

  • Can help increase programmer productivity by providing centralized database handling routines so that application programmers only need to understand the logical relationships of data, not the physical characteristics.
  • Helps simplify the application programmer's job by allowing high speed access to persistent data on z/TPF while providing a simple application interface.

z/TPFDF also provides the database administrator with the tools to manage the database without necessarily affecting application programs.

AVAILABILITY DATE - SEPTEMBER 16, 2005

STATEMENT OF DIRECTION:

It is IBM's intention to provide High Level Assembler (HLASM) capability on Linux for zSeries prior to, or at the time of, the general availability of z/TPF Enterprise Edition V1.1.

It is IBM's intention to provide z/TPF support of the Sub Capacity Reporting Tool (SCRT) within nine months of the general availability of z/TPF Enterprise Edition V1.1. SCRT is intended to allow z/TPF to report utilization for the purpose of sub capacity pricing (WLC).

These statements represent IBM's current intentions. IBM development plans are subject to change or withdrawal without further notice. Any reliance on this Statement of Direction is at the relying party's sole risk and will not create any liability or obligation for IBM.