bdfg1m08General Information


TPFDF Product Introduction

The TPF Database Facility (TPFDF) licensed program is a database manager for application programs that run in a Transaction Processing Facility (TPF) or Airline Control System (ALCS) operating environment.

Note:
ALCS is also referred to as TPF/MVS.

Traditional database management functions for these systems were the responsibility of application programmers. Throughout this publication, traditional means TPF or ALCS databases that are non-TPFDF. To increase the productivity of application programmers, the TPFDF product provides:

After the TPFDF product is installed, application programs are no longer sensitive to the physical implementation of the database.