Software Announcement October 7, 2004 IBM z/Transaction Processing Facility Enterprise Edition V1.1 — The future of high availability transaction processing Overview • Low cost — z/TPF offers a low cost per transaction for high-volume At a glance z/Transaction Processing Facility real-time transactions. This Enterprise Edition (z/TPF) V1.1 capability alone represents a Benefits for z/Transaction (5748-T15) is a high-performance competitive advantage for Processing Facility Enterprise operating system specifically delivery of business services in Edition (z/TPF) V1.1 and designed to provide high availability the marketplace. z/Transaction Processing Facility for demanding high-volume, Database Facility (z/TPFDF) V1.1 • Efficiency — z/TPF supports the real-time transaction processing for include: IBM 64-bit z/Architecture with mission critical e-business the use of 64-bit real addresses • applications. z/TPF runs on and Ability to handle tens of and 64-bit virtual addresses exploits IBM zSeries thousands of transactional enabling large-scale memory servers, an infrastructure offering for messages per second spaces permitting large • transaction processing with high High reliability and availability applications and large memory quality of service demands. as integral parts of the product tables. • Fast response times for transactions As the next generation of on demand • Open development environment • Low cost per transaction transaction processing systems, — z/TPF also uses the GNU tool • 64-bit support on zSeries z/TPF has been developed on the chain. z/TPF can share servers to provide for large architecture of IBM TPF V4.1. TPF applications, tooling, and address space capability V4.1, widely used in the Travel, development infrastructure with • Large redundant single Banking/Finance, and Public Sector the most common open system database capable of addressing industry segments, is well suited to available, Linux . business computing environments up to 32K addressable storage requiring: The z/Transaction Processing Facility units per system • C/C++ programs built on • Database Facility (z/TPFDF) V1.1 Management of extreme (5748-F15), provides database Linux using the GNU toolchain — • transaction volumes z/TPF can management functions to z/TPF: Support for common, reliable process tens of thousands of open communications protocols transactions per second from • Can help increase programmer and formats hundreds of thousands of end productivity by providing users. Additionally, a z/TPF centralized database handling For ordering, contact: loosely coupled complex can Your IBM representative, an IBM Business routines so that application Partner, or the Americas Call Centers at scale to as many as 32 zSeries programmers only need to 800-IBM-CALL Reference: LE001 servers. understand the logical relationships of data, not the • High reliability/availability — For physical characteristics. mission critical applications, Key prerequisites downtime can effect losses of • Helps simplify the application millions of dollars an hour, not programmer′s job by allowing z/TPF runs on the following zSeries only from revenue loss, but also high speed access to persistent servers: from bad publicity and dissatisfied data on z/TPF while providing a • z990 customers. simple application interface. • z900 • Fast response time — When • z890 z/TPFDF also provides the database • response time is critical to help administrator with the tools to z800 lower call center costs or enhance manage the database without customer satisfaction, z/TPF is necessarily affecting application Planned availability date designed to provide fast and programs. consistent response across September 30, 2005* predictable and unpredictable peaks. * Improved to September 16, 2005 This announcement is provided for your information only. For additional information, contact your IBM representative, call 800-IBM-4YOU, or visit the IBM home page at: http://www.ibm.com. IBM United States IBM is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation. 204-250 • z/TPF supports C and C++ enabling richer Description applications and application portability. C/C++ programs are supported in 64-bit mode only. z/TPF features and benefits • z/TPF also supports common, reliable communications protocols and formats such as TCP/IP, UDP, HTTP, z/TPF can act as a specialized server for transaction WebSphere MQ, SNMP, SMTP, IMAP4, POP3, FTP, application processing and can play a role in various SNA, TFTP, SOAP, XML and MATIP. enterprises as a core infrastructure that provides transaction and database services to outlying applications • WebSphere MQ is available on z/TPF. WebSphere MQ on numerous and diverse products and platforms. can run as an MQ Client, a Queue Manager or a server on z/TPF allowing messages to be sent between z/TPF • Management of extreme transaction volumes — applications, or between z/TPF applications and processing peak loads in the tens of thousands of applications residing on other WebSphere MQ transactional messages per second. Additionally, a platforms. z/TPF loosely coupled complex can scale to as many • as 32 zSeries servers. z/TPF open_ssl base SSL stack includes management of the SSL socket at the kernel level allowing multiple • High reliability/Availability — z/TPF was designed from processes to share sessions. This may allow z/TPF to the start to provide high availability including a potentially scale SSL connections to hundreds of redundant database. z/TPF also has the capability of: thousands of sessions by reducing the required memory footprint for each SSL session. − Adding new applications while the system is running and fall back to prior versions of • A common debugger is provided for both assembler applications if necessary, also while the system is (BAL) programs and C/C++ programs utilizing running. zSeries trace functions. The result is a “hookless” debugger for C/C++ programs. With this facility, − Logging system accesses and transactions for z/TPF allows debugging for the tracing of TPF C/C++ security and audit purposes programs, compiled at any optimization level. − Capturing and logging persistent data for data • z/TPF provides a POSIX-like flat file system. z/TPF integrity and recovery purposes includes a ported virtual file system that allows • Fast response time -When response time is critical to mounting of other files systems and a new memory file help lower call center costs or enhance customer system for transient (temporary) files. satisfaction, z/TPF is designed to provide fast and • z/TPF database capabilities include FARF6 and up to consistent response performance across predictable 32 loosely coupled systems attached to the same and unpredictable peaks. database. • Low cost per transaction — This capability alone FARF refers to File Address Reference Format which represents a competitive advantage for delivery of is used for symbolic addressing of records in a z/TPF business services in the marketplace. database. The FARF6 address format can theoretically z/TPFDF (5748-F15) provides database management address 72 quadrillion records. z/TPF also allows you functions to z/TPF: to attach up to 32,000 addressable storage units. • Can help increase programmer productivity by • providing centralized database handling routines so Loosely coupled complexes require the following: that application programmers only need to understand − Channel Redrive, which is activated by IMLing the the logical relationships of data, not the physical processor in ESA TPF mode. characteristics. This simplifies the application programmer′s job by allowing high speed access to − Sysplex Timer attachment. For high-availability persistent data on z/TPF while providing a simple Sysplex Timers, the dual port Sysplex Timer application interface. attachment card is required. • Provides the database administrator with the tools to − DASD control units that require multi-path lock manage the database without necessarily affecting facility (MPLF). If you have a coupling facility (CF), application programs. DASD control units do not require MPLF. • The z/TPF database is designed specifically for Bigger, better, faster features extremely high I/O rates. It is not a relational database. The z/TPF Application Requester (z/TPFAR) • z/TPF supports IBM 64-bit z/Architecture„ with the use provides z/TPF application architects and database of 64-bit real addresses and 64-bit virtual addresses managers with the ability to store or retrieve data from enabling large-scale memory spaces. Applications a relational database which supports DRDA running in either assembler or C/C++ have access (Distributed Relational Database Architecture ). By to a 64-bit process address space with necessary using z/TPFAR, the z/TPF customer can access system services supporting all address ranges. The information stored within a relational database such utilization of 64-bit architecture allows large as DB2 . Pertinent data can also be inserted into a applications as well as large memory tables. Basic relational database in those cases where the relational Assembler Language (BAL)-based applications can storage technique is a better fit to the data than the also be run in 31-bit mode. various standard z/TPF database access methods. • The z/TPF system includes the base product and the • The standard and widely used Mail protocols of Simple High Performance Option feature. This feature, Mail Transport Protocol (SMTP), Post Office Protocol consisting of the loosely coupled facility and the