Introduction to TANDEM - Manager's Overview Course

Course Code: MQ 63
Course Abstract: This course is for group and product level managers who need to learn something about the Tandem platform. This is a 1-day, no-lab overview of Tandem fundamentals, and the effect this architecture has on their development and management methodologies. They will learn about fault tolerance, parallelism, scalable systems.
Audience: This course is designed for managers that manage people who will design and develop applications, manage operations, or control databases on the Tandem system(s), but who won't necessarily have hands-on exposure.
Duration: 1 day
Learning Outcomes: This course is designed for managers that manage people who will design and develop applications, manage operations, or control databases on the Tandem system(s), but who won't necessarily have hands-on exposure.
Course Topics:

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

Prerequisites: none
Note: All fields are required
At the present time we do not offer training for individuals or groups less then 6 individuals. We apologize for any inconvenience.


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