K570 CICS/TS and the World Wide Web

Course Code: K-570
Recommended Duration: 5 Days

Benefits

The student learns how to use CICS/TS to interact with the World Wide Web, both as a client and as a server.

Audience

Application programmers who will be involved in migrating, developing, maintaining, or enhancing systems that use CICS/TS to interact with the world wide web.

Prerequisites

The student should be knowledgable of basic CICS coding techniques, and of COBOL.

Related IBM Materials

This course is drawn from these IBM manuals; access to them in the classroom is desirable but not required:

CICS/TS Internet Guide (current version)
CICS/TS Web Services Guide (current version)

Major Topics Include

CICS Resources: TCPIPSERVICE, DOCTEMPLATE, URIMAP, PIPELINE, WEBSERVICE
Basic HTML
Serving Static HTML pages
Web3270
Templates from BMS maps
Document templates
EXEC CICS DOCUMENT
Web-aware programming: EXEC CICS WEB
Channels and containers
Pipelines
Web Services Assistant: DFHLS2WS and DFHWS2LS
EXEC CICS INVOKE WEBSERVICE
Writing a CICS Web Services Provider
Writing a CICS Web Services Requester
Using the CICS Business Logic Internface

Exercises

There are ten machine exercises.

Note

This course requires CICS/TS 3.1 or later in order to run the labs.

Course Objectives
Topical Outline
CICS curriculum
Complete topics list
Home page

Course Description

CICS/TS and the World Wide Web