gtpg1m16 | General Information |
For specific product levels required and detailed information about
requirements, see the TPF Migration Guide: Program
Update Tapes (available prior to the general availability of the TPF
4.1 system).
The basic Transaction Processing Facility system environment requires
specific hardware and software. Optional software products and their
benefits in a TPF system environment are also listed.
- Required software:
- The TPF system
- Appropriate features
- Application programs written in High Level Assembler or IBM C/370 language
- MVS/ESA system and associated products
- IBM High Level Assembler/MVS & VM & VSE
- PL/1 Optimizing Compiler and Library
- AD/Cycle C Compiler and Library
- C/370 Compiler and Library
- VTAM for SNA communications
- NCP.
- Hardware:
- Processor for each system
- DASD control units and devices
- Tape control units and drives
- System console
- Communications hardware, including local and remote terminals
- Printers.
- Note:
- Additionally, RPQs may be required for specific hardware. The TPF Migration Guide: Program Update Tapes
(available prior to the general availability of the TPF 4.1 system)
contains a list of TPF system RPQs.
- Optional software:
- The TPF Database Facility (TPFDF) licensed program is a database manager
for applications that run in a TPF operating environment. The TPFDF
licensed program provides:
- A logical method of database organization
- A set of standardized assembler macros or C-functions that form the
application program interface (API).
- The Extended Operations Console Facility/2 (EOCF/2) licensed program
provides licensed customers of TPF systems:
- Enhanced console operations, such as the capability for automation
- The ability to control and monitor multiple TPF host systems from a single
workstation in an IBM Operating System/2 (OS/2) environment.