z/OS Digital Certificates Tips and Tricks

Project and Program: Enterprise Data Center, Security and Compliance

Tags: Proceedings, 2016, SHARE in San Antonio 2016

In this session the speaker gives some tips for using certificates on z/OS. z/OS supports digital certificates in different components like RACF; System SSL; LDAP; CICS; Communication Server; WAS; HTTP server. The discussion will include how these components work together and answers to the common questions like: • What certificates are needed for server authentication versus client authentication?
• Whether to use a shared certificate amongst several servers?
• What is needed in a shared certificate?
• How to plan the renewal?
• Where to generate a CSR (certificate signed request)?
• What key size should be used?
-Ross Cooper-IBM Corporation

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