UC06 Writing z/OS CGIs in Assembler

Writing z/OS CGIs in Assembler - Course Objectives

On successful completion of this course, the student, with the aid of the appropriate reference materials, should be able to:

Code, compile, bind, debug, deploy, and maintain CGIs written in Assembler for the z/OS environment
Handle GET and POST requests: analyze and take action, as appropriate, such as
* Parse and decode a QUERY_STRING value for GET
* Gather in the stdin data for POST, then
- Save a file as is or translated to EBCDIC on the mainframe, for POST
Produce responses that are HTML pages or redirection
Access environment variables
Access DB2 data (optional: depends if DB2 installed and lab set up done)
Access VSAM KSDS data by primary key or alternate index
Put out HTML encoded in UTF-16, to provide a truly international aspect to your website
Submit jobs to the batch from a CGI (optional; may not be appropriate in all environments).

Note: This course supports the HTTP server provided free with z/OS and the ported Apache server

UC06 / 2 Days

Materials version: V3.x