TMN Workbench for AIX

Power tools for application development

Need to simplify the task of writing object specifications and agent/manager applications? Then the IBM TMN WorkBench for AIX is for you.

The TMN WorkBench helps you generate management applications, and modify and generate specifications.

Developing OSI applications can be exquisite drudgery. A typical GDMO document describing managed object classes contains lists of classes, packages, and all their sub-components, each identified by registered object identifiers. These definitions are complex and lengthy.

To write a management application, you must translate the object definitions into programming language data structures, a time-consuming job.

But TMN WorkBench eliminates much of the routine work involved in generating code for data structures. TMN WorkBench helps you:

• Create an easy-to-understand, formatted view of a specification using a CLASS BROWSER AND EDITOR.
• Create new object classes and pass them to a compiler. TMN Support Facility WorkBench supports GDMO, ASN.1 and SMI.
• View the formatted compiler output graphically and modify specifications or create new specifications.
• Create new object classes from existing classes, using a graphical user interface to display the inheritance tree.
• Store object classes and instances in a persistent format using TMN Support Facility WorkBench DATABASE SERVICES. Then query or delete object classes and instances as needed from the relational database via TMN Support Facility WorkBench APIs.
• Trace and debug problems using the XMP API TRACER with easy-to-follow calls to the programming interfaces.
• View a specific representation of a resource and issue commands to that resource with the configuration application facility, a CMIP INSTANCE BROWSER.

And TMN WorkBench includes a "cookbook" with easy-to-follow examples of how to use each tool.

Features

Increase your effectiveness with:

• Accurate compilation of GDMO, ASN.1 and SMI notations for the specification of managed objects
• Support for the agent/manager framework: X.700 agent/manager object-oriented execution environment
• Tools and APIs necessary to simplify enhancements
• Ability to create new objects that inherit the characteristics of superior objects
• A graphic display of all instances in hierarchical fashion using the containment tree
• Automatic code generation supporting XOM/XMP communication
• Automatic generation of OSI agent implementations
• Ability to dynamically query and view instances of CMIP objects
• Support for INGRES** and flat text database formats

Prerequisite Software

• IBM AIX Version 3.2.5 for RISC System/6000* or later
• AIX SystemView* NetView/6000 Version 2.1 or later
• X Window System** Version 1.2 or later
• OSF/Motif**
• INGRES Version 6.4 or later

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