Information Bulletins

February 20, 2012

V5.5-000 brings major new enhancements to GT.M

"V5.5-000 brings two major new enhancements to GT.M. Supplementary Instance replication extends GT.M replication functionality to create instances for applications such as reporting, decision support, warehousing, analytics and auditing - all in real time. A new function allows for unused free space to be returned to the operating system after operations such as data archival - even while the database continues to be actively used."

November 18, 2011

GT.M Acculturation Workshop v0.7 available

"The GT.M Acculturation Workshop provides training materials for self-paced training in GT.M configuration, administration and operation. Version 0.7 is now available."

October 27, 2011

FIS releases new PDF GT.M user documentation

"New PDF documentation, with versions optimized for print and screen reading, now complement the existing HTML documentation"

May 26, 2011

FIS releases io_thrash a useful utility program for assessing IO performance

"io_thrash is intended to be used to assess IO subsystem performance by simulating the database and journal file IO activity of FIS GT.M, a highly scalable schema-less database engine with support for full ACID (Atomic, Consistent, Isolated, Durable) transactions. In addition to its use in financial services as an engine for FIS Profile, GT.M is also widely used in health care. io_thrash is written in ANSI C and should build and run on any POSIX system against any POSIX file system. As such, it can be used to simulate workloads for apples-to-apples comparisons of different file systems (e.g., ext3 vs. jfs), different IO subsystems (e.g., SCSI vs. SAN), different computer systems (e.g., IBM pSeries AIX vs. Sun SPARC Solaris), etc."

May 13, 2011

With V5.3-002, GT.M completes planned support for 64-bit architectures

"GT.M V5.3-002 is a major new release that completes the planned support for 64-bit architectures by adding Sun SPARC Solaris to the set of 64-bit platforms. It also adds support for the Mapped Memory database access method and includes functional & performance enhancements (especially on platforms running GNU/Linux), as well as bug fixes. Details follow."

May 13, 2011

Attend the first GT.M+PIP Technology Exchange, Malvern, Pennsylvania, October 16/17, 2008

"Attend the first GT.M + PIP Technology Exchange GT.M has a twenty year track record as a workhorse for applications ranging from small systems all the way up to the largest real time core processing system that we are aware of in daily production use at any bank anywhere in the world. As technology and your needs advance, FIS has continuously added software functionality and services, such as PIP."

May 13, 2011

GT.M Sponsors VistA Tour

"VistA Tour's mission is to increase awareness of the VistA health care information system in Latin America. VistA (Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture) is the acclaimed health care information system originally developed by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to support record-keeping functions and clinical-care management of veteran's health care. VistA is the most widely adopted health care information system used by government agencies and public or private health care organizations. There is growing adoption of VistA outside of the United States, Mexico and Jordan, are the primary examples. The time is right to advance the adoption of VistA in Latin America."

May 13, 2011

GT.M V5.3-003 adds useful additional functionality

"V5.3-003 is a new GT.M release with useful additional functionality. Complete details are in the release notes. Highlights include: IO to a process. A GT.M process can now OPEN a process, WRITE to that process and READ from that process. For the simplest usage, application code can now write directly to, say, the lpr command to send output directly to a print spooler without the need for a temporary intermediate file."

May 13, 2011

Blue Mountain Hospital goes live with Medsphere OpenVista on GT.M on Linux

"Blue Mountain Hospital in Blanding, Utah, which offers crucial medical services to residents of the Four Corners region encompassing sections of Utah, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico, is now in live production with the proven free / open source software (FOSS) electronic health record (EHR) stack of Medsphere OpenVista on GT.M on Linux."

May 13, 2011

V5.4-000 is a major new GT.M release with significant new functionality

"GT.M triggers are code fragments stored in databases files. When a process updates a global variable, any triggers in that database file whose signatures match the update are automatically executed with the update. Triggers have many uses. MUPIP INTEG now has an ONLINE option to check a database for structural integrity while applications continue to operate. GT.M V5.4-000 also provides a friendlier "out of the box" experience. Once GT.M is installed, the new shell script "gtm" automatically runs GT.M with a reasonable set of default environment variables, and even automatically creates a default global directory and default database with before image journaling and automatic recovery"

May 6, 2011

V5.4-002 brings important new functionality and scalability

"V5.4-002 is an important new release that enhances scalability, especially of local variables, as well as adding important new functionality in several areas."

September 16, 2010

GT.M Acculturation Workshop v0.6 available

"The GT.M Acculturation Workshop provides training materials for self-paced training in GT.M configuration, administration and operation. Version 0.6 is now available and can be downloaded from the GT.M project at Source Forge. It consists of thee zip files: an archive of a directory with the content, a virtual machine disk image and a set of patches to be applied to WorldVistA EHR in the course of the workshop."

July 8, 2010

V5.4-001 adds support for an important new platform, Linux on IBM System z

"V5.4-001 is a major new GT.M release with support for Linux on IBM System z" linking to the new page created above and the text: "GT.M now supports GNU/Linux on IBM System z, an increasingly popular platform for enterprise scale applications"

May 19, 2010

FIS Wins IBM Beacon Award for Outstanding Enterprise Application Solution

"FIS was selected for the award based on its core Profile/GT.M conversion for Government Savings Bank (GSB) in Thailand, the country's fourth largest bank. The conversion was completed within a 16 month timeframe, and included the entire branch and back office technical infrastructure of the bank and 20 million deposit and loan accounts."

May 5, 2010

VTB24, Russia's Second Largest Retail Bank, Goes Live with FIS Profile Core Banking Suite on GT.M

"VTB24, the second largest retail bank in Russia, with US$24 billion in assets, 4.5 million clients and a network of almost 500 branches throughout the country, has gone live with the FIS Profile® core banking suite running on GT.M. This is a significant step towards consolidating our success in the highly demanding Russian banking market."

March 19, 2010

V5.4-000A provides timely remediation of a small number of issues with V5.4-000

"Effective V5.4-000A, FIS now provides pre-built 32- and 64-bit binary distributions for GT.M on the industry standard x86 GNU/Linux platform for download from the GT.M project page at Source Forge. In prior releases, FIS provided source code to build both 32- and 64-bit executables of GT.M on that platform, but only provided 32-bit binary distributions."

July 19, 2009

GT.M V5.3-004 adds major new functionality and platform support.

"Support for z/OS on the IBM eServer zSeries computing platform. GT.M programs now run on mainframes using the zFS file system with a high degree of portability from and to other POSIX environments. refer to the gt.m on ibm eserver zseries z/os technical bulletin for details."

December 10, 2008

Jordan selects GT.M for its pilot of VistA

"The nation of Jordan plans to install the VistA electronic health record software on GT.M in its Government-run healthcare system."