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Tandem Computers, Inc. was the dominant manufacturer of fault-tolerant computer systems for ATM networks, banks, stock exchanges, telephone switching centers, and other similar commercial transaction processing applications requiring maximum uptime and zero data loss. The company was founded in 1974 and remained independent until 1997. It is now a server division within Hewlett Packard.

Tandem Computers, Inc. was the dominant manufacturer of fault-tolerant computer systems for ATM networks, banks, stock exchanges, telephone switching centers, and other similar commercial transaction processing applications requiring maximum uptime and zero data loss. The company was founded in 1974 and remained independent until 1997. It is now a server division within Hewlett Packard.

Tandem's NonStop systems use a number of independent identical processors and redundant storage devices and controllers to provide automatic high-speed "failover" in the case of a hardware or software failure.

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How does the HP (Tandem) Non stop compare with Linux clusters?

HP NonStop systems (previously known as "Tandem") are known for their high availability and reliability, and higher price. How do Linux or Unix based clusters compare with them, in these respects and others?
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C on HP Nonstop: How to obtain filesize of large file > 2GB?

I'm working on a C application which is running on HP-Nonstop and it needs to get the size of files on disk. The already implemented way of doing that is the following: char *filename; short itemlist; long fileLength = 0; short retCode; itemlist =…
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How does HP/Tandem NonStop achieve single failure FT without spares?

As far as I could gather from Wikipedia and the mindboggling HPE website, the claim to fame of the NonStop system architecture is that it can achieve a single-failure FT without having to allocate excessive amounts of spare capacity (i.e. in…
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similar function as gotoxy and print a line on HP TANDEM - GUARDIAN

I am working in Guardian environment of HP tandem machines through C programming. Can any one please let me know a function which i can use to print output by moving to an X row and Y column. like a curses library on Guardian. When i try to include …
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Tandem/Non-Stop Socket programming

I am new to socket programming and I am trying to implement a client server using TCP. The client is written in Java in Windows and the server is written in C in Tandem/Hp-NonStop. I am able to connect and send request to the server. But I am not…
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what is the concept of text, routine , macro and differentiate between them

This is the example we are using those concepts here ?SECTION MACRO ?SECTION TEXT ?SECTION ROUTINE
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NUMIN producing wrong output,how to get right answer?

I am creating a program to count number of digits in number When I am putting value in 5 digits it is producing right answer but when I put value in 6 digits it is producing wrong value. To see what happening in the code I debugged the code and…
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Setsockopt function with time limit is not working in C on hp non-stop

I am trying to set up timeout for receiving data via socket. struct timeval { time_t tv_sec; long int tv_usec; }; struct timeval tv; tv.tv_sec = 5; sockfd = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0); if (sockfd == -1) { …
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Sending data from C to COBOL on HP Tandem

I am trying to call a C function from COBOL and expecting a reply from it. I am new to this interfacing. COBOL code: ENTER C "ADD" USING A,B. C code: int ADD(int a,int b) { return a+b; } I want to get the sum value from the C function for…
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Sleep() function in C not working on hp non-stop

I am trying something in C on hp-nonstop(tandem), As part my task is to wait for sometime. I try to use the #include #include #include #include int main() { int i; for(i=0;i<10;i++) { …
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FTP'ing structured files in binary mode

I am trying to FTP a file onto a Tandem HP/Non-Stop environment. The records are written to the file using a C process which are then read using another C process. The file itself contains some records which are not readable using a standard text…
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SSH Scripting for HP Nonstop Guardian with SAFEGUARD

we have some perl scripts to do things on guardian os on a hp nonstop machine with telnet. Now we have to shut down telnet and have to use the ssh (comforte) connection with a safeguarduser. We try to connect with the following perl code and…
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Enabling SSL for an MQ queue manager on the HP Nonstop

I have an existing MQ MQI connection (Server-Connection) between an HP Nonstop and a Windows server. I am working on configuring the queue manager for SSL on the Nonstop. I have followed a couple sources available on net closely but am still…
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SWT Create Two StyledText That Scroll In Tandem

I have to create two StyledText that scroll in tandem , All I am getting is code for creating same using ScrolledComposites . I have limitation of using StyledText only because, I am using it for other purpose as well. I want to create same thing …
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SFTP to HP-Nonstop

I am trying to create a nodejs client to sftp files from a remote HP-Nonstop server, just wondering whether this is possible? Any help would be greatly appreciated!
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