The enhancements to CICS® Web support provide the following
benefits:
- CICS as
an HTTP server can be managed more easily by using URIMAP resource definitions
instead of, or as well as, an analyzer program. URIMAP definitions can be
used to assign an HTTP request directly to a user application program, and
you can administer them online.
- Using URIMAP definitions, you can make CICS automatically provide static responses
to a Web client, so you do not need to write and invoke an application program
to provide this type of response. The static response can be formed from a CICS document
template or a z/OS® UNIX System
Services HFS file, and the response can incorporate data from a Web client's
query string.
- The UTF-8 and UTF-16 character encodings are available for code page conversion.
The code page conversion process for CICS Web support is improved, and you no
longer need to set up a code page conversion table (DFHCNV) for use with CICS Web
support.
- The CICS API
supports translation between date and time stamp formats used on the Internet,
and the CICS ABSTIME
format.