U518 You and z/OS and the World Wide Web

Course Code: U-518
Recommended Duration: 5 Days

Benefits

Students who complete this course will be able to create and maintain web pages written in HTML (and XHTML) that are hosted on the mainframe. This also provides a firm basis for writing CGI (Common Gateway Interface) scripts to run on the z/OS server.

Audience

Programmers experienced with working in an OS/390 or z/OS environment who will be designing and coding Web applications that are to be run using the z/OS HTTP server.

Prerequisites

Familiarity with z/OS UNIX System Services, such as might be obtained by attending our course Introduction to z/OS UNIX.

Related IBM Materials

None. This course is drawn from international standards bodies. Links to over 15 of them are provided in the course materials.

Major Topics Include

Introduction to the Web - Web servers on z/OS
Introduction to Markup Languages (SGML, HTML, XHTML)
Text Markup Elements
Links and anchors
Basics of HTML Style
Introduction to Style Sheets
Lists
Images and maps
Client-side map processing
Objects and applets
Multimedia
DOM - the Document Object Model
Introduction to client-side scripting
JavaScript (ECMAScript)
Forms and controls
Cookies
Tables
IFrames - inline Frames
Validation of HTML pages
HTML future directions

Exercises

There are 21 hands-on exercises.

Course Description

You and z/OS and the World Wide Web