UC01 Introduction to CGIs on z/OS

Course Code: UC01
Recommended Duration: 1 Day

Benefits

CGI stands for Common Gateway Interface, and it is the most widely used programming technology for creating dynamic web pages at the server. Students who complete this course will be able to design CGI scripts and programs to run on z/OS used as a web server.

Audience

Programmers experienced with working in an OS/390 or z/OS environment who will be designing and coding CGI applications that are to be run on z/OS.

Prerequisites

At the very least, the student entering this course should have some background in z/OS UNIX and HTML or XHTML, such as might be obtained from courses U510 ("Introduction to z/OS UNIX") and U518 ("You and z/OS and the World Wide Web").

Related IBM Materials

None required.

Major Topics Include

Review of basic Web concepts
Overview of CGI processing
Review of Forms and Controls
Building responses to client requests
GET request processing
POST request processing
Error handling
Testing
Debugging CGIs
Emitting non-EBCDIC output
DB2 Access
The RRSAF Interface
Submitting batch jobs
nph processing
The Design of Web-based dialogs

Exercises

There are no exercises in this course, as it is designed to be the prerequisite for our language specific CGI courses.

Course Description

Introduction to CGIs on z/OS