CICS Web Interface Workshop

Course Number: 693-JK
Recommended Duration: 3 days

Intended Audience: Experienced CICS application programmers, system designers, and system programmers who need to web-enable CICS applications.

Objectives

Attendees will learn to web-enable CICS applications using different methods and to use existing CICS applications from the web. This course includes using CICS from a web browser via Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) forms interacting with both client-based and server-based programs. Students will learn about: Interacting with HTML, CICS Web Interface (CWI), External Call Interface (ECI), CICS Transaction Gateway (CTG), 3270 Bridge, CICS Web Services, and CICS Java support. The goal of the course is to build the skills needed help move CICS transactions web (Internet/Intranet).

Prerequisites

Experience coding and testing CICS maps and transactions. Knowledge of HTML, HTTP, and internet processing is very helpful but not required.

Topics

• CICS Web Interface (CWI)
• Using HTML forms variables
• External Call Interface (ECI)
• CICS client and server programs
• CICS Transaction Gateway (CTG)
• 3270 Bridge
• CICS Web Services overview
• HTML, HTTP, and web technology
• HTML template manager
• HTML overview
• TCP/IP interactions
• Understanding URLs
• CICS URLs
• Invoking CICS programs from web browser
• BMS maps and the internet
• Unix system services environment
• HFS introduction
• CICS WEB API commands
• CICS DOCUMENT API commands
• Cookies
• Temporary storage
• Channels and containers
• Java and CICS

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