Sure TPF lives on, Mostly in large shops.
Many of the smaller Airlines who used to run TPF are now hosted by the
large shops like Amadeus or Sabre and others
Ever heard of ALCS - AirLines Control System -
Its a real-timer monitor that runs under Z/OS and can do just about
anything TPF does, pretty much the same API.
There a few airlines outside the US (some quite large) running their
Reservations/Departure Control applications on ALCS.
If I was starting from scratch, I'd choose ALCS over TPF.
Regards
Turtle44 - an ALCS bigot
On Mon, 03 Sep 2007 16:47:07 GMT, Paul Hinman <paul.hinman@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
wrote:
>Is ACP/TPF still around. I once got all of the informational material
>together and suggested to my boss that we consider it for some of our
>on-line applications. It resulted in a series of unprintable comments
>questioning my ancestry, the marital status of my parents, the kennel my
>mother was born in, and suggested that perhaps I came from the shallow
>end of the genetic pool. As I retreated from his office I said that I
>thought that they were interested in reliability and performance for the
>on-line systems.
>
>He was a gutless wonder who would never have made a suggestion to take a
>radical approach, he was part of the group that decided not to select
>IMS because our shop would never go to a virtual memory operating system
>(which it did, of course).
>
>I still think that it would have been neat to use TPF for a regular
>commercial application. I understand that it became popular with some
>banks as well as the airlines and the is why it was renamed Transaction
>Processing Facility/Airline Control Program.
>
>I heard all kinds of stories about how fast it was to IPL and bring up
>the applications compared to bringing up MVT/SVS/MVS and then once the
>OS was up one could begin starting the applications.
>
>Was their any truth to this or is this grandfather just suffering from
>creative recall.
>
>Paul.
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