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Status Not under consideration
Workspace z/OS
Categories Communications Server
Created by Guest
Created on Aug 31, 2023

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Have TN3270 Task to provide a Count Down message when a Certificate that is cached it should provide messages on the cert and expiration

The CERT is cached when the TN3270 is started.  When that cert is nearing expiration (30 days or less) there are no messages in TN3270 that state the cert is about to expire.  Or how many days it is until expiration.  Or what the name of the cert that is expiring.  Since some shops rarely cycle TN3270 or IPL the LPAR - the fact that a cert could be renewed, and the task not cycled is a high risk.  A message that states:   CERT xyz is about to expire in YY days - could be very helpful.  It would also allow automation to monitor for an expiring cert.

 

To Identified what cert has expired currently requires a lenghy process that includes a review of an SVC Dump for GSKSRVR.

Idea priority Low
  • Guest
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    |     Sep 29, 2023
    Tracking and managing certificate expiration is a system-wide issue. As such, certificate expiry needs to be monitored at the system level so that expiring certificates for any z/OS-based services are identified and refreshed well before the actual expiration date. We suggest you look into options for system-wide certificate expiration monitoring such as the RACF_CERTIFICATE_EXPIRATION health check. Given the number of servers and range of middleware that run on z/OS, it would be impractical and cost prohibitive for IBM to build such checks into each server or middleware product.

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