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'''Control Program Facility''' ('''CPF''') was the [[operating system]] for the [[IBM System/38]]. CPF is not related to [[IBM System/34, 36 System Support Program|SSP]].

'''Control Program Facility''' ('''CPF''') was the [[operating system]] for the [[IBM System/38]]. CPF evolved into the [[OS/400]] operating system, which was originally known as '''XPF''' (Extended CPF).<ref name="inside-as400">{{cite book|title=Inside the AS/400, Second Edition|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5DoPAAAACAAJ|isbn=978-1882419661|author=Frank G. Soltis|year=1997|publisher=Duke Press}}</ref> CPF was represented an independendent line of development at [[IBM Rochester]], and was not related to the earlier and more widely used [[IBM System/34, 36 System Support Program|SSP]] operating system.

==Overview==

A database management system was integrated with the operating system.

CPF evolved into the [[OS/400]] operating system for the [[AS/400]] platform. Great efforts were made by IBM to enable programs originally written for the [[System/34]] and [[IBM System/36|/36]] to be moved to the AS/400.

==Description of the libraries==