Also , there is a z/OS based product - ALCS - which provides the same functionality as TPF without the overhead of additional hardware, operating system , operational costs etc . So targeted at smaller shops.
On Sat, 20 Mar 2021 at 12:13, Mike Shorkend <mike.shork...@gmail.com> wrote: > I worked at an airline in the 90s. I was on the OS/390 team.There was an > equivalent(much larger) TPF team. it is a very unique operating system. All > it could do (and did it very well) was handle high volumes of transactions > and database calls. I expect it has not changed much. Everything else, like > compiling programs(assembler and C) , loading NCP, backups etc. was done by > OS/390. > > The last I heard, there were about 30 licenses world wide, > > On Sat, 20 Mar 2021 at 06:35, Tom Brennan <t...@tombrennansoftware.com> > wrote: > >> Ah... that makes sense. Then they might have been going over that 32 CP >> limit fairly soon after the limit was changed. Being the first on your >> block to run new code is no fun at 2 in the morning. >> >> On 3/19/2021 8:15 PM, Mike Schwab wrote: >> > I think the limit was 32 z processors in an LPAR. They might have >> > raised it by now. z15 can have 190 in high capacity order. >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >> send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN >> > > > -- > Mike Shorkend > m...@shorkend.com > Tel: +972524208743 > > <https://www.linkedin.com/in/MikeShorkend/> > > <https://twitter.com/mikeShorkend> > > -- Mike Shorkend m...@shorkend.com Tel: +972524208743 <https://www.linkedin.com/in/MikeShorkend/> <https://twitter.com/mikeShorkend> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
