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Status Not under consideration
Workspace z/OS
Categories Communications Server
Created by Guest
Created on Oct 2, 2013

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Checking Server Certficates for Experation

Since TLS is becoming a larger part of the IT datacenter we need a way to detect if server certificates are about to expire, This is especially important for TN3270. I would suggest that when the ATTLS policy is loaded each policy keyring is checked to see if the default certificate is with in a period that it is going to expire soon; say 3 months. If it is a Message is displayed warning the user that this certificate is about to expire and should be renewed.

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
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    |     Nov 19, 2015

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - z Systems Software
    Product - z/OS Communications Server

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - WebSphere
    Product family - Enterprise Networking
    Product - z/OS Communications Server

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Dec 6, 2013

    In V2R1, RACF added a health check (RACF_CERTIFICATE_EXPIRATION) that does exactly what is requested here, but it does it for all certificates in the RACF database -- not just those that happen to be used by AT-TLS or IKED.     By default the RACF_CERTIFICATE_EXPIRATION check runs daily.   The complete description is in the  the z/OS V2.1  Health Checker User's Guide (http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/epubs/pdf/e0z3l100.pdf).   Since this is a much more comprehensive approach to checking for pending certificate expiration than anything we could put in AT-TLS or IKED, we are rejecting this requirement, and instead recommend the new RACF function.

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