The Tivoli Connection feature supplies the components for enabling development of VisualAge applications that are Tivoli management-ready:
The set of parts provides interfaces to standard Tivoli events that include application start-up, application close, and application error. By adding these parts to your application, you can send events to the Tivoli Enterprise Console. Events can be used to alert the TEC of significant changes in the state of your application, such as error conditions or successful completion of tasks.
Both visual and non-visual interfaces to the event parts are provided. From the Composition Editor, you can find the visual parts in the Tivoli Connection category on the parts palette. A sample application illustrates how to use these parts. The non-visual parts are defined in the TivoliConnectionRunApp application.
In order to run your Tivoli-enabled application, you must include the dynamic link library, TECEIF.DLL. This DLL provides the interface between the events generated by your application and the event integration facility of the Tivoli Enterprise Console.