Introduction to CGIs on z/OS - Course Objectives

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

1. Define what a CGI is
   
2. Specify the environment a CGI runs in, including relevant sources of information
   
3. Describe how a CGI is invoked from a web page
   
4. Describe the differences between GET and POST CGI processing
   
5. Describe what the necessary environment variables are and how to access them
   
6. Describe how to emit responses to the server from a CGI
   
7. Specify how to emit non-EBCDIC data from a CGI
   
8. Suggest how to approach debugging and testing
   
9. Submit batch jobs from a CGI
   
10. Plan for / design a CGI interface that uses cookies to keep track of the process of a dialog
    
11. Describe the processing concerns and issues facing the design of a CGI that accesses DB2 data
    

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