Course Description

You and z/OS and the World Wide Web

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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.

• Introduction to the Web - Web servers on z/OS
• Introduction to Markup Languages (SGML, HTML, XHTML)
• Text Markup Elements
• Lists 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
• ECMAScript (Javascript / JScript)
• Forms and controls
• Cookies
• Tables
• Frames

Exercises

There are 20 hands-on exercises.