CorePlatform21 min
HPE NonStop (Tandem) fundamentals
The fault-tolerant platform behind many card payment switches, ATMs and exchanges: the Tandem story, process pairs and shared-nothing design, and the tools you meet when you work on it.
What you will be able to do
- Explain what HPE NonStop is, where it came from and where it is used
- Describe how process pairs, a shared-nothing design and TMF keep work running
- Recognise TACL, Pathway, Enscribe, NonStop SQL and EMS, and compare them with z/OS
Lessons
- HPE NonStop and the Tandem storyHPE NonStop is a platform designed so that no single failure stops the work. It began with Tandem Computers, founded in 1974, passed to Compaq and then HP, and is now sold by…
- How NonStop keeps runningNonStop's availability comes from a few ideas working together: independent processors that share nothing, a message-based operating system, process pairs that keep a backup…
- Working on NonStopDay-to-day work on NonStop uses TACL, the command interpreter; the Guardian environment with its \node.$volume.subvolume.file names, or OSS for POSIX tools; Pathway (TS/MP) to…
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