DECtp

Digital Equipment Corporation Sales Material

1. Overview of Transaction Processing
• Defining Transactions and Transaction Processing
• The Importance of Transaction Processing
• The Transaction Processing Style of Computing
• Digital's Vision of Transaction Processing
  • User Interface
  • Transaction Processing Monitor
  • Application
  • Database Manager
• Defining Performance
• Defining Availability
• Defining the Development Environment
• Defining Distributed TP
• Separating TP System Components
• Ways in Which Distributed TP Applies to Business
• Handling Application Growth
• Growth in Length
• Growth in Width
• Growth in Depth
• Growth in Time
• The Operating System Role
• Benefits for Digital's Customers
• Summary
2. Forms Management
• Introduction
• Defining a Video Form
• How Video Forms Have Evolved
• The Architecture and Basic Components of the FIMS
• FIMS Windowing
• DECforms: Digital's Implementation of the FIMS
• Summary
3. Databases
• Database Design and Business Success
• Databases Versus Flat Files
• Facilities of a Database Management System
• Separating Definitions from the Application
• Views
• Operating on Collections of Records
• Data Integrity
• Preprocessors and Languages
• Physical Control
• Query Languages
• Database Models
• Hierarchical Data Model
• Network Data Model
• Relational Data Model
• Advantages of the Relational Model
• Standards
• The Digital Relational Database Management System
• Summary
4. Availability
• Applications with High Availability Requirements
• Cost of System Downtime
• Real-World Definition of a System
• System Availability
• Continuous Operation
• The Role of Fault Tolerance in Determining System Availability
• The Range of Availability Required
• Digital's Current High-Availability Transaction Processing Systems
• Processing SYstems
• CI-Based VAXcluster Systemns with DECtp
• Fault-Tolerant VAX Systems
• Dual-Host Systems with DECtp Software
• MIRA High-Availability Systems
• Tolerance of and Recovery from Communication Faults
• Recovery from Site Disasters
• Tolerance of Power Faults
• Services to Ensure High Availability
• Achieving High Availability in Practice
• Examples of Today's Applications
• Summary
5. Transaction Processing Software Development
• Software Development Life Cycle
• Requirements Definition
• High-Level Design
• Detailed Design
• Code and Unit Test
• System Integration and Testing
• Maintenance and Other Activities
• Transaction Processing Issues in Development
• The Challenge for CASE
6. Summary
• Digital's Strategy
• Conclusion

• Appendix A: The Digital DebitCredit Benchmark Methodology and Results
• DebitCredit Overview
• Introduction
• The Environment
• Transaction Flow
• The Database
• Implementation Constraints
• Terminal Communications
• Benchmark Metrics
• General Discussion
• DebitCredit Guidelines
• Application Implementation Language
• Specification
• Interpretation
• Terminal Communication
• Specification
• Interpretation
• Database Description, Size, and Location
• Specification
• Interpretation
• Transaction Logic
• Specification
• Interpretation
• Selection of Transaction Data Values
• Specification
• Interpretation
• Numbers of Tellers, Transaction Arrival Rate, and Distribution
• Specification
• Interpretation
• Response Time Requirements and Measurement
• Specification
• Interpretation
• Concurrency Control
• Specification
• Interpretation
• Recovery Mechanisms
• Specification
• Interpretation
• Data Collection Interval
• Specification
• Interpretation
• Determining Cost
• Specification
• Interpretation
• Benchmark Test Methodology
• Terminal/Front-End Processor Emulation and Communications
• Tuning, Transaction Generation, and Measurement
• Tuning
• Transaction Generation
• Response Time Measurement
• Results
• Acknowledgements
• References
• Appendix B: Additional Reading
• Appendix C: Glossary

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