TPF Users Group 2027 Conference Agenda

Conference Theme: TBD

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Sunday - March 21nd, 2027

4:00PM - 6:00PM Early Registration Open

4:00PM - 6:00PM Board of Directors / Subcommittee Chairs Meeting (Closed) Subcommittee Chairs and Directors only

6:00PM - 6:30PM New Attendees Orientation

Monday - March 22nd, 2027

7:30am - 6:00pm Registration Open

7:45am - 9:00am Breakfast provided by TPFUG

9:00am - 11:00am General Session - Opening

11:00am - 11:15am Break

11:15am - 12:05pm Subcommittee Meeting - Operations and Coverage

Addresses the issues with operating and managing the TPF systems, including Console support (TOS), Virtual Tape, DASD subsystems, performance, load and incident management in the TPF environment.

12:05pm - 1:05pm Lunch provided by TPFUG

1:05am - 2:05pm Subcommittee Meeting - Operations and Coverage (Continued)

2:05pm - 3:15pm Subcommittee Meeting - System Control Program

Addresses CPU, DASD, and tape components as well as the general issues of TPF shipments, packaging, support standards, documentation, and procedures.

3:15pm - 3:30pm Break

3:30pm - 4:55pm Subcommittee Meeting - Application Development

Addresses issues related to development of applications for the zTPF environment, including the application program interface presented by zTPF, programming language compilers, development, and test tools, and development methodologies.

5:00pm – 6:00pm Monday's Hot Topics

6:30pm - 9:30pm TPF Users Group Reception and Special Program

Tuesday - March 23rd, 2027


7:30am - 6:00pm Registration Open

7:45am - 9:00am Breakfast provided by TPFUG

9:00am - 10:50am Subcommittee Meeting - Development Tools

Addresses TPF Toolkit and other source development tools. This includes test tools, zTPFGI, VPARs, VTAPE, and other third-party products.

10:50am - 11:05am Break

11:05am - 11:45am Subcommittee Meeting - Development Tools (Continued)

11:45am - 12:05pm Subcommittee Meeting - Database

Addresses all issues related to TPF Database/TPFDF, Business Events, Recoup, Pools, and the file systems in TPF. This includes DASD file systems.

12:05pm - 1:05pm Lunch provided by TPFUG

1:05pm - 2:40pm Subcommittee Meeting - Database (Continued)

3:00pm - 3:15pm Break

3:15pm - 5:00pm Subcommittee Meeting - Communications

Addresses TCP/IP, MQSeries and inter-processor communications, including MPIF, OSA, etc.

5:00pm - 6:00pm Tuesday's Hot Topics

6:00pm - 9:00pm Vendor Reception and Exhibition Programs


Wednesday - March 24th, 2027

7:30am - 9:00am Registration Open

7:45am - 9:00am Breakfast provided by TPFUG

9:00am - 10:30am Ongoing TPF Education

10:30am - 10:45am Break

10:45am - 11:30am General Session