BTAM, or Basic Telecommunications Access Method, was a low-level programming interface specified by IBM for use on the IBM System/360. Later, IBM specified higher-level interfaces (QTAM, VTAM) and entire architectures (TSO, SNA), System 360 Model 65 operators console, with register value lamps and toggle switches (middle of picture) and emergency pull switch (upper right). ... VTAM is an acronym for Virtual Telecommunications Access Method. ... Time Sharing Option (TSO) is an interactive command line interpreter for IBM mainframe operating systems such as MVS/ESA, OS/390 and z/OS. It fills the same purpose as a command shell like Bash on Unix, or cmd on Windows. ...
BTAM requires the application program to handle almost every detail of the protocol. This is harder than using a higher-layer protocol, but it permits interfacing to non-standard devices in non-standard ways. At the time BTAM was introduced, there was little standardization anyway. Like most many of the System/360 programming interfaces, BTAM continued to be supported in later iterations of the system architecture. IBM finally withdrew support for BTAM in 2000.
The BTAM is intended to be a rational and practical tool for those who specify, buy, integrate, operate, and manage biometric technology-based systems.
BTAM Volume 1 is a comprehensive primer on biometrics.
NBSP is a not-for-profit test, research and analysis organization focused entirely on the application of biometrics to improve the security of the U.S. civil infrastructure.
All responsibilities identified as trust-related would be transferred to BTAM from the BIA.
The justification for this new bureau is based upon the banking industry's standard that trust activities must be segregated into a separate organization in order to create an ethical wall between the trust department and all other departments within a bank.
Although the ethical wall is a sound tenet in the private sector financial community, it may not be directly adaptable to a government agency that relies heavily on the free flow of internal information.
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