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Status Not under consideration
Workspace z/OS
Categories Communications Server
Created by Guest
Created on Aug 31, 2012

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FTP/SSL client can pull the CA from the FTP/SSL server

Today z/os FTPS client gets the public Cert (CA) from the FTPS server when it connects. If the CA is not in the RACF database (or keyring) it rejects the connection with an appropriate error message.

Other platforms and SSL products, such as https have an option for the user to accept this CA when the connection is in progress and even add it to the trusted CA file. CFI Linux command center has a special command to pull the CA from the server, and load it into its Cert files.

IBM on z/os only provides a Cert trace with will show the CA in a hex trace format, which is not usable to reconstruct the CERT.

Enhancement Request:
Provide an FTPS client function or special (GETCERT) TSO command to pull the public CA from an FTPS remote server then format and save the Cert in a format acceptable to load into RACF.

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Dec 7, 2020

    This item is not in our plans but is being kept in our backlog.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     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

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