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.

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