UC06: Objectives

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

  1. Code, compile, bind, debug, deploy, and maintain CGIs written in Assembler for the z/OS environment
  2. Handle GET and POST requests: analyze and take action, as appropriate, such as
    * Parse and decode a QUERY_STRING value for GET
    * Gather in the stdin data for POST, then
    – Save a file as is or translated to EBCDIC on the mainframe, for POST
  3. Produce responses that are HTML pages or redirection
  4. Access environment variables
  5. Access DB2 data (optional: depends if DB2 installed and lab set up done)
  6. Access VSAM KSDS data by primary key or alternate index
  7. Put out HTML encoded in UTF-16, to provide a truly international aspect to your website
  8. Submit jobs to the batch from a CGI (optional; may not be appropriate in all environments).

Note: This course supports the HTTP server provided free with z/OS and the ported Apache server.

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