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11.1 z/TPF, SOA, and existing applications
One of the main purposes of this book is to demonstrate methods to SOA-enable your z/TPF
based applications. The business value of this cannot be understated. For most existing TPF
customers, the TPF systems of today are their mainline, critical path business systems. The
functions provided by these systems and the applications that implement those functions are
key business assets. Any attempt to replace them with totally new solutions represents
immense cost and risk. For many, TPF is hosting key travel reservation or banking functions.
Users and customers of these systems depend on these functions to do their jobs and/or ...