Course Description

Introduction to CGIs on z/OS

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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.

• 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
• Templates

Exercises

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