How do you tell Secure FTP to use the CA Top Secret KEYRING?
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How do you tell Secure FTP to use the CA Top Secret KEYRING?

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How do configure Secure FTP to use a CA Top Secret KEYRING?
 

How do configure Secure FTP to use a CA Top Secret KEYRING?

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Component: TSSMVS

Resolution

Any application that supports and uses SSL to establish a secure connection has some type of parm file or configuration file where you tell the application that a SAF keyring is being used and its name. 

Secure FTP has a FTPDATA member which is the configuration file specific to Secure FTP.

The keyring name is specified KEYRING keyword in the FTPDATA member.

KEYRING=userid/keyring 

Once the KEYRING keyword is specified, FTP will make digital certificate r_datalib calls. The security system running on the system (TSS, ACF2 or RACF) will respond to the r_datalib calls.