CICS V3 Application Development for SOA and Web Services

Course Description

This 5-day instructor-led course teaches students how to design, code, and debug CICS application programs that utilize the CICS Web Support and CICS Web Services features in CICS TS V3.

The content of this course applies to the entire family of CICS products, and is primarily directed toward application developers who are interested in implementing CICS Web Services. Through a combination of instructor-led lectures and extensive hands-on exercises in COBOL, students learn about the aspects of CICS Web Support that form the foundation for creating and debugging CICS Web Services. The course covers topics such as creating and implementing CICS applications as Web services, developing CICS server and client applications, and implanting security measures in CICS for Web support and Web services applications.

Students who are only interested in learning CICS Web Support in order to implement server- or client-side CICS Web applications may prefer to enroll in other courses, such as CICS Web Support Programming Workshop (CI820) and CICS TS Version 3.1 - Exploiting the New Features (CI825).

This course is applicable to all releases of CICS TS V3.

For information about other related WebSphere courses, visit the WebSphere Education Training Paths website:

http://www.ibm.com/software/websphere/education/paths/

Skills Gained

• Introduction to CICS Web Support
• Exercise: Invoking a CICS application using a URL
• HTML and JavaScript overview
• Exercise: Coding, testing, and debugging an HTML page
• Developing a CICS Web Support server application
• Exercise: Building a presentation logic front end program
• Developing a CICS Web Support client application
• Exercise: Building a CICS client program
• CICS and XML
• Exercise: Using CICS to parse and generate XML
• Introduction and overview of CICS Web Services tooling
• CICS as a Web services provider
• Exercise: Building a Web services provider application
• CICS as a Web services requester
• Exercise: Building a Web services requester application
• WS-Security and WS-Trust
• Setting up and using the resources
• Exercise: Resource definition
• Summary

Who Can Benefit

This advanced course is designed for application developers and analysts who need to design, implement, and debug CICS Web Services in a service-oriented architecture (SOA) environment.

Prerequisites

Before taking this course, students should have:

• Working knowledge of the underlying operating system platforms
• Basic knowledge of CICS (as taught in course CICS V3.2 Fundamentals (WM800) or (VM800))
• Basic knowledge of application design and programming
• COBOL or PL/1 application development and coding skills (as taught in course CICS V3.2 Command Level Coding (WM860) or (VM860))