Introduction to the new mainframe Chapter 13 zOS













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Introduction to the new mainframe Chapter 13: z/OS HTTP Server © Copyright IBM Corp. , 2005. All rights reserved.

Introduction to the new mainframe Objectives After reading this chapter, you will be able to: • List the three server modes • Explain static and dynamic Web pages • List at least two functions from each of the following modes: • Basic • Security • Caching • Understand how to deploy a Web application on z/OS © Copyright IBM Corp. , 2005. All rights reserved.

Introduction to the new mainframe Key terms in this chapter • • CGI dynamic FRCA HTTP J 2 EE LDAP SSL static © Copyright IBM Corp. , 2005. All rights reserved.

Introduction to the new mainframe Introduction to Web applications on z/OS: Past: • Many applications are tied to z/OS (CICS, DB 2) • New developments made on other platforms Now: • Integrate both on z/OS © Copyright IBM Corp. , 2005. All rights reserved.

Introduction to the new mainframe z/OS HTTP Server modes: • Stand-alone server • Scalable server • Multiple servers Static Web pages Dynamic Web pages © Copyright IBM Corp. , 2005. All rights reserved.

Introduction to the new mainframe Dynamic Web Pages Common Gateway Interface (CGI) © Copyright IBM Corp. , 2005. All rights reserved.

Introduction to the new mainframe Dynamic Web Pages - Interaction with Web. Sphere plug-in, same address space © Copyright IBM Corp. , 2005. All rights reserved.

Introduction to the new mainframe Dynamic Web Pages - Interaction with Web. Sphere Web container inside HTTP Server, separate EJB container © Copyright IBM Corp. , 2005. All rights reserved.

Introduction to the new mainframe Dynamic Web Pages - Interaction with Web. Sphere Separate J 2 EE server with both Web container and EJB container © Copyright IBM Corp. , 2005. All rights reserved.

Introduction to the new mainframe HTTP server capabilities Basic functions : • • • EBCDIC/ASCII file access System Management Facilities Tracing & logging Server Side Includes Simple Network Management Protocol Management Information Base (SNMP MIB) Cookies support Multi Format Processing Persistent connections Virtual hosts © Copyright IBM Corp. , 2005. All rights reserved.

Introduction to the new mainframe HTTP server capabilities (continued) Security functions: • • • Thread level security HTTPS/SSL support LDAP support Certificate authentication Proxy support © Copyright IBM Corp. , 2005. All rights reserved.

Introduction to the new mainframe HTTP server capabilities (continued) File caching: • • HTTP server caching HFS files HTTP server caching z/OS data sets Unix System Service caching HFS files Fast Response Cache Accelerator (FRCA) © Copyright IBM Corp. , 2005. All rights reserved.

Introduction to the new mainframe Summary In this chapter, you learned about: • The three server modes • Static and dynamic Web pages • These HTTP server modes: • Basic • Security • Caching • Deploying a Web application on z/OS © Copyright IBM Corp. , 2005. All rights reserved.