Book Marks

The Web being the dynamic animal it is there will from time to time be broken links. Please do report them. Similarly if you find a noteworthy Web Site let us know and we'll mark it here.

Book Mark Selection

These links are in the narratives found on various OLTP related topics on this site. Dive in at the Site Home Page.

• BEA Systems, vendors of ...
  • Tuxedo
• IBM do
  • MQ Series
  • IMS
  • TPF
  • IBM SP2
  • IBM 390
  • OS/390 CICS
  • IBM also do TXSeries:
    • CICS
    • CICS/ETK Manuals
• HP now own Compaq who'd taken over Digital do
  • ACMSxp
  • Reliable Transaction Router
• Microsoft are starting to move into TP with
  • Wolfpack
  • ActiveX
  • Viper
  • Falcon
• The Open Software Foundation (OSF) promote (amongst other things)
  • DCE, much of it based on
    • Mach Operating System
    • "MUTEX"

Other TPM for Open Platforms

There are TPM available on open platforms, which we (ZOIS) have not actually used and therefore, perhaps surprisingly, know little about.

• Tibco. This one has an interesting configuration language based on LISP
• UniKix. Touched on briefly in the page on CICS. This TPM has is now owned by SUN.
• UTM, or more properly Open UTM as it is styled by Siemens, its vendor. This is a port to UNIX or the their Mainframe TPM Programming Interface (also known as UTM). Open UTM is based on a toolkit itself based on Tuxedo.
• ACMSxp is Compaq's open TPM. It is based on the VMS TPM ACMS and like CICS on open platforms is based on the Encina Toolkit and DCE. It is available on several non-Compaq platforms, including Solaris and HP-UX as well as Windows NT.

Other Links

Not found anywhere else in this site and grouped into catagories (sort of).

Brixton from Alebra is a widely available SNA product on UNIX and it sometimes is found masquerading in other disguises (for example Sun's onetime SNA product was Brixton). The name seems to be in and out of favour and it has not always been know as `Brixton'.

• Brixton

The following are sources of OLTP information, but you may have to pay.

• Patricia Seybold Group Home Page
• CiTR Pty. Ltd.

Selling products with TP like properties (often for the Web).

• Iona Technologies
• Webspher Business Integration (an IBM acquisiton, was called CrossRoads then CrossWorld)
• Information Builders
• New Era of Networks

Something for the front end ...

• Forte Advanced Application Environment
• JYACC (Prolific), maker of JAM Software
• MITEM

Interesting DCE things.

• DCE/CORBA Interworking (was work in progress, now stalled)

Standards, new and fresh, current and crusty, old and faded, the list is not exhaustive.

• TCP for Transactions (T/TCP)
• RFC2084 Web Transaction Security
• RFC1045 Versatile Message Transaction Protocol
• RFC0955 A Transport Service for TP
• RFC0938 Reliable Transaction Protocol
• Transaction Internet Protocol (TIP)
• DSTC RM-ODP Information Service (no longer available)
• IETF RFCs from ISI

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Highlights

This site is mainly about On-Line Transaction Processing (OLTP). We've some other papers on this:

• Something for non-cognoscente.
• The executive summary.
• OLTP and big computers.
• OLTP and reliability.
• What Transactions are about.
• The need for scaling.
• Tuxedo.
• CICS.

Also of Interest

Juicy morsels from the rest of the site:

• Some site news; it's a sort of infrequently updated journal for the author too.
• Rather specific Technical Notes, the author can still bore people in the Historic Third-person.
• Of the little hacks that have been done recently, the Unofficial Jobcentre Plus Mirror seems to have gained the most traction.
• Other ephemeral, eclectic stuff. Mostly photographs.
• A series of Gormless Anecdotes, basically recycled e-mails.

About the Author

His name is Martin Sullivan. He's a fifty-something some-time computer programmer living in the quaintly named town of Cockermouth in north-west England.

The Company

ZOIS Limited is basically a vehicle for Martin and his OLTP work, he owns it. You can find out more about it elsewhere on the main site.

Pro-Bono Plug

Martin is currently on a health sabbatical, but is interested in the odd bit of pro-bono work by the way of therapeutic recovery. So, if you've anything that he can tackle on a non-commercial basis from his base in Cockermouth please let him know. Unsurprisingly, he's particularly interest in biology, again, and the application of computing to it.