Module 1 – The Basics Defined:
Tandem History
Fault Tolerance
Data Integrity
High Performance
Scalability
Continuous Availability
Parallelism
Interprocess Communication
ServerNet
Security
Module 2 – Tandem's Operating Systems:
The NonStop Kernel
Release Model
Message-Based Operating System
Processes
Process IDs and the Ready List
Interprocess Communication
UNIX and Windows NT
Module 3 – The Command Interpreter:
What is TACL
Typical Commands
System Information
Function keys and Shortcuts
Programming Capabilities in TACL
Module 4 – Impact on Operations:
Operating in a 24x7 environment
Customer Replaceable Components
Operations tasks Impacted
Database Protection, Backups, and Restores
TM/MP
Online Audit Trails
Database Backups and Restores
Remote Duplicate Database Facility
System Startup & Shutdown
System upgrades and OS updates
Module 5 – Impact on Applications Design
Traditional Batch Environments
Online Transaction Processing
Monolithic vs. Multi-Process Programs
Multi-Process Implemented for OLTP
Multi-Process Implemented for Batch
"Marbles in a Tube"
Module 6 – Database Impacts
File Structures
ENSCRIBE File Handling
SQL/MP
Distributed Databases
Decision Support