Plug-in Overview
TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks™ Plug-in for IBM i plugs into TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks, which bridges TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks with an IBM i system. You can use this plug-in to operate the objects on an IBM i system.
TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks is an easy to use integration product suite for enterprise, web, and mobile applications. It uses the Eclipse graphical user interface (GUI), TIBCO Business Studio, for defining business processes and the process engine to execute them.
TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks supports plug-ins to extend the palette functionality. After installing the TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks Plug-in for IBM i, an IBMi Shared Resource and IBMi palette become available in TIBCO Business Studio. You can add the plug-in activities to design the business processes, and integrate them with BusinessWorks process. At run time, the plug-in activities are executed as part of the BusinessWorks process. Each plug-in consists of various activities that share common functionality and properties. The following six activities are included in IBMi Palette:
- MonitorQueue: Use this activity to listen a data queue on an IBM i system.
- CallProgram: Use this activity to invoke application programs on an IBM i system.
- ReadMessageQueue: Use this activity to read messages from a message queue on an IBM i system.
- ReadQueue: Use this activity to read messages from a data queue on an IBM i system.
- CallServiceProgram: Use this activity to invoke service programs on an IBM i system.
- WriteQueue: Use this activity to write messages to a data queue on an IBM i system.