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Application The application building block, which is used to group a
set of software components, captures information that
applies to all the components of an application.
Software Component The most fundamental building block, the software
component is a manageable unit of an application that
resides on a particular platform. The software
component building block describes the management
requirements, such as installation, configuration, and
monitoring, for a single software component on a single
platform.
Business System In many cases, applications are combined into a
high-level system that performs a particular business
function. The business system is a combination of
applications and technologies that interact with each
other to fulfill a critical business function.
Business Subsystem The business subsystem organizes business
components into groups based on a common function in
order to provide another level of management.
Business Component Business systems are made up of components that
describe the role a software component plays within a
business system. For example, an Internet server could
be an order entry interface or an airline ticketing server,
depending on what business system it belongs to.
Business Mapping This provides the mapping for business system
components to software components.
Table 2-3 shows definitions resulting from AMS definition file types.
Table 2-3 AMS types
AMS filetype TBSM definitions
bsdf Business System View definitions, depending on the type: Business
System, Application, or Middleware
bssdf Business System View definitions
bmdf Ties the component to its Business System View and provides
instance filtering for the Business System View
bcdf No correlated IBM Tivoli Business Systems Manager definitions are
created
gdf Defines and provides the name of the default task library