Transaction Processing Facility - An Inside View

noreply@blogger.com (sivasankar) — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 08:56:00 -0700

Transactional Processing Facility shortly called as TPF, is an IBM mainframe technology being used from early 1950s till now. Yes, there are lots of systems and servers currently using Transactional Processing Facility to run big business. The main advantages of TPF are it is assembly language technology. In other words, unlike high-level languages, it doesn't need a translators or complex compilers to get the object code or assembled code. The second and most important advantage is a Transaction Processing Facility system can handle about 10,000 processing parallel. This is the reason still Transaction Processing Facility technology are irreplaceable.

TPF jobs are also very much incredible and hard to get. You have around 10,000 TPF programmers around the world. You can still see TPF jobs, TPF programmers wanted in popular job sites. There has always been a hot eat waiting for TPF programmers.

To say a word about the business that going on with this Transaction Processing Facility technology, Big guns like VISA is using TPF technology to handle thousands of processing parallel across the world. Other than that, lots of Banking and Airline industries are rely on this TPF technology. Due its complex processing, and large need, no one can afford of buying TPF technology. IBM leases the TPF technology to the large companies.

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