Writing z/OS CGIs in Assembler - Topical Outline

General Program Structure and Techniques
    General program structure
    Redirect using printf
    Redirect using bpx1wrt
    Watching for errors
    Deploying your CGI
    Computer Exercise: Setting up for labs:

Basic Processing
    Emitting Headers
    Emitting XHTML
    Accessing environment variables
    Displaying environment variables
    Stylesheets and CGIs
    Computer Exercise: Writing out XHTML pages

Handling GET Requests
    Some scenarios
    Parsing QUERY_STRING content
    Decoding QUERY_STRING content
    Computer Exercise: Handling incoming data

The Data Connection - Part I: The Story
    Working With Data on the Server

The Data Connection - Part II: Working With VSAM Data
    Working with VSAM files
    Computer Exercise: Working with VSAM data

The Data Connection - Part III: Working With DB2 Data
    Working with DB2 data
    Computer Exercise: Working wth DB2 Data (optional)

Hidden Controls and cookies
    Session continuity
    Hidden controls
    Cookies
    Modifying the previous CGI [to emit data]
    Designing the invoked CGI [to catch data]
    Coding the invoked CGI [to catch data]
    Computer Exercise: The Persistence of Memory

POST Requests
    Finding needed storage size
    Allocating storage
    The CGIGETBF Routine
    Reading from stdin
    Breaking Apart Headers and Data
    Our Sample POST CGI Logic
    The TCAPSTB CGI code
    Computer Exercise: Handling POST Processing

Handling Files Sent by POST
    File Handling
    Computer Exercise: Saving and Linking to Files

Working With Unicode Data
    The Role of Unicode
    CGIs and Unicode

Submitting jobs from a CGI
    Set up
    Logic
    Computer Exercise: Submitting a job (optional)

Course information: UC06 / 1 Day         These Materials © Copyright 2007 by Steven H. Comstock   V1.x

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