CICS Transaction Server Extensions

Duration

3 to 4 hours

Overview

Audience

Programmers and system administrators requiring knowledge about the options available for making legacy CICS transactions and data available to the Internet, and how to use CICS to provide high-volume, reliable processing for Internet applications.

Prerequisites

Basic knowledge of CICS, the Internet, and Java.

Objectives

After completing this course, the student will be able to:
• Define the available methods for web-enabling CICS transactions
• Define the CICS Transaction Gateway and the use of Java to drive CICS transactions
• Identify the basic Java objects provided by the CICS Transaction Gateway and how they can be used in a Java applet, application, or servlet
• Identify the security issues raised by exposing CICS systems to the Internet, and the technologies available to address them
• Identify how the CICS Transaction Server has implemented some of these Internet security technologies

Course Content