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Workspace IBM i
Categories Db2 for i
Created by Guest
Created on Sep 1, 2021

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Provide Db2i Service For Managing Certificates

Recently our SSL certificates expired and upon raising a support ticket with IBM our only solution was to delete everything and start from scratch again.

No message was issued by the OS to inform us that certificates were due to expire.

The solution to monitor the expiration of certificates provided by IBM Support was manual and required the user to sign in to DCM first.

A simpler solution; if there is no way that a message could be sent to a defined user message queue when certificates are due to expire in a defined number of days, would be to provide a Db2i service; with requisite user authority etc., to provide a method of querying what certificates are available and when their expiry date is and by using a where clause allow the user to get a list of those that are due to expire within a specific date range etc.


Use Case:

End users of certificates may not be those responsible for ensuring certificates are kept current; due to authority requirements etc.

A method for the end users to identify those certificates that are due to expire so they can request the appropriate actions to be undertaken would improve the maintenance of certificates.


Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Sep 24, 2021

    IBM believes that the request described has been solved with the addition of the QSYS2.CERTIFICATE_INFO table function.

    This was included in DB PTF Group 7 for IBM i 7.4 and DB PTF Group 18 for IBM i 7.3.

    See https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6156105 for additional details.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Sep 1, 2021

    This already available with the QSYS2.CERTIFICATE_INFO()

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