IBM WM891G - Innovative CICS System Programming - Implementing Mobile Apps with CICS

Course Outline

• Course introduction
• Introduction to CICS and mobile
• Exercise: Lab setup and SOAP web services
• Implementing JSON web services
• Exercise: Implementing JSON and SOAP web services
• CICS and IBM MobileFirst Platform Foundation
• Exercise: CICS and IBM MobileFirst adapter
• CICS events and push notifications
• Exercise: CICS events and notifications
• Mobile integration and workloads
• Exercise: CICS TG JSON web services
• Secure mobile access to CICS
• Exercise: IBM z/OS Connect feature
• Course summary

Objective

• State the options that are available to implement mobile apps with CICS applications
• Use the mobile CICS solution technologies to connect mobile applications
• Describe the CICS implementation process for SOAP and JSON web services
• Describe the steps that CICS takes to process web services
• Explain how to implement JSON web services
• Define the CICS related resources and artifacts of the implementations
• List IBM MobileFirst components
• Describe the use of the IBM MobileFirst components with CICS
• Describe how IBM MobileFirst Platform adapters connect with CICS
• Describe CICS event processing and its use with mobile apps
• Describe how to set up the CICS application to provide notifications to the mobile device
• Describe MobileFirst Platform push notification architecture
• Describe the integration support for JSON web services for CICS Transaction Gateway, Liberty, and z/OS Connect
• Identify CICS mobile workloads and apply workload management techniques to improve performance
• Identify the security options that are available to secure mobile web services in CICS
• Describe what is available to enable end-to-end security
• Define the steps that are needed to configure security for JSON web services
• Describe how to secure the adapter connection from the IBM MobileFirst Platform Server to CICS
• Identify the steps that are needed to enable SSL mutual authentication between CICS and MobileFirst Server