TPF Users Group 2026 Conference Agenda

Click Here 2026 Conference Information

Conference Theme: TBD

Sunday - March 22nd, 2026

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 23rd, 2026

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

11:15pm - 12:25pm 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.

12:25pm - 1:15pm Lunch provided by TPFUG

1:15pm - 4:20pm 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.

3:15pm - 3:30pm Break

3:30pm - 4:20pm Continuation of Subcommittee Meeting - Operations and Coverage

4:20pm - 5:10pm Subcommittee Meeting - Web Services Subcommittee

Addresses distributed technologies. including MongoDB, REST, DFDL, MQSeries, SOAP, and XML. Includes Web and Mail Servers on TPF.

5:20pm – 6:00pm Monday's Hot Topics

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

Tuesday - March 24th, 2026


7:30am - 6:00pm Registration Open

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

9:00am - 11:45am Subcommittee Meeting - Development Tools

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

10:45am - 11:00am Break

11:00am - 11:45am Continuation of Subcommittee Meeting - Development Tools

11:45am - 1:00pm Lunch provided by TPFUG

1:00pm - 2:10pm 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.

2:10pm - 3:10pm 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.

3:10pm - 3:25pm Break

3:25pm - 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

6:30pm - 9:30pm Vendor Reception and Exhibition Programs


Wednesday - March 25th, 2026

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