You and z/OS and the World Wide Web

Summary

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.

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Prerequisites

Before taking this course, you should have familiarity with z/OS UNIX System Services, such as might be obtained by attending our course Introduction to z/OS UNIX (PT5642).

Duration

5 Days/Lecture & Lab

Audience

This course is designed for 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.

Topics

Introduction to the Web - Web servers on z/OS

• Introduction to Markup Languages (SGML, HTML, XHTML)
• Text Markup Elements
• Links 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
• JavaScript (ECMAScript)
• Forms and controls
• Cookies
• Tables
• IFrames - inline Frames
• Validation of HTML pages
• HTML future directions

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