What is the best strategy to achieve an effective digital transformation of your business? How do you make your business more agile, productive, and less siloed so that you can provide engaging customer experiences rapidly and at lower costs?

Answer: Accelerate your IBM z/Transaction Processing Facility (z/TPF) application modernization and leverage hybrid cloud.

This IBM Redbooks® publication provides an overview of the IBM® strategy to help you modernize z/TPF applications faster at lower cost and at less risk by using IBM Z® and public cloud solutions together in your modernization journey. This publication includes prescriptive approaches, best practices with supporting technologies, and reference architectures to help businesses achieve the right outcome.

Businesses need rapid digital transformation

Embracing hybrid cloud

Best-fit approach to application modernization

Advantages of the z/TPF architecture

Continuous application modernization journey

Where do you start

Reference architectures for modernization

z/TPF Modernization Patterns

The choice of process execution model matters

The z/TPF database architecture

Large memory exploitation

z/TPF memory and high availability

Kernel-scoped sockets and middleware 

Getting started with IBM

Conclusion