Terminal Productivity Executive

{{Short description|Session management software for IBM mainframes, presently sold by CA Technologies}}

Terminal Productivity Executive (TPX) is a multiple session manager for IBM mainframes. It allows connected users to access resources with a single sign-on.[http://docweb.cns.ufl.edu/docs/archived/d0038/d0038.pdf TPX Overview], docweb.cns.ufl.edu[http://dsitspe01.its.state.ms.us/its/DCUMan.nsf/f201b3eea4a3768286256d880077c24b/4258edaf86d3986386256b4f005a1d67?OpenDocument TPX - TERMINAL PRODUCTIVITY EXECUTIVE] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110815071337/http://dsitspe01.its.state.ms.us/its/DCUMan.nsf/f201b3eea4a3768286256d880077c24b/4258edaf86d3986386256b4f005a1d67?OpenDocument |date=2011-08-15 }}, its.state.ms.us It holds several sessions concurrently, allowing a person to switch among them via the single connection on their physical terminal or terminal emulator application,[http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21258944 Telnet SNA session with TPX Session Manager terminates due to bracketing error, Problem (Abstract)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121010151925/http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21258944 |date=2012-10-10 }}, ibm.com i.e. telnet. For each session, TPX uses a virtual terminal; users can use it to switch amongst ISPF and SDSF in the Time Sharing Option.

TPX is presently a product of CA Technologies,[http://www.ca.com/us/products/detail/ca-tpx-session-management.aspx CA TPX Session Management] having been originally developed by Morgan Stanley, and later acquired by Duquesne Systems.[http://foldoc.org/Terminal%20Productivity%20eXecutive Terminal Productivity eXecutive], FOLDOC{{cite magazine|magazine=Computerworld|author=Ninamary Buba Maginnis|title=Pittsburgh developer shows rapid growth in software mart|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=C5n2J7iQenwC&pg=PA94|date=10 November 1986|publisher=IDG Enterprise|page=94}} TPX is primarily used on z/OS, but a version also exists for z/VM.[https://support.ca.com/irj/portal/anonymous/solndtls?aparNo=RI61364&os=VM&actionID=3 Solution document RI61364], CA Support Online