CICS/TS Web Services

    

Summary:
IBM has implemented a number of facilities in its CICS product to facilitate the integration of traditional CICS applications to the Internet. This is a process that started with the implementation of CICS/TS 1.3. CICS/TS 3.1 has continued this trend. Today, CICS applications can talk to web browsers as well as web servers. With the introduction of web services and SOAP, they can also talk to UNIX and .NET platforms. All in all, CICS/ST 3.1/3.2 is now an important player in implementing Service Oriented Architecture in your organization.This course will concentrate on the new facilities implemented in CICS/TS 3.2. We will discuss HTTP 1.1 support, CICS transactions acting as clients in a CICS/WEB scenario, XML, SOAP and Web Services.

Duration:
4 Days/Lecture & Lab

Audience:
This course is designed for programmers, designers, system architects and system administrators interested in this subject. Please note that there are 5 exercises which will require a little programming; all exercises will be using COBOL program skeletons.

Topics:

• HTTP 1.1 Support
• CICS Channels and Containers
• Web Service, SOAP and XML
• CICS as a Web Service Provider
• CICS as a Web Service Requester
• Security

Prerequisites:
Some knowledge the CICS API is required.

Last Update: May 20, 2013