How do you send a certificate to an external Certificate Authority for signing in ACF2?
Article ID: 186160
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Products
ACF2
ACF2 - DB2 Option
ACF2 for zVM
ACF2 - z/OS
ACF2 - MISC
Issue/Introduction
How do you send a certificate to an external Certificate Authority for signing in ACF2?
Environment
Release : 16.0
Component : CA ACF2 for z/OS
Resolution
To create a new certifiacte do a GENCERT of the certificate you would like to create. From the ACF prompt enter commands:
set profile(user) div(certdata)
GENCERT ABC.CERT subj(subject details) label(yourlabel)
Followed by a GENREQ putting the newly created certificate into a dataset. From the ACF prompt enter command:
set profile(user) div(certdata)
genreq ABC.CERT DSNAME('dataset.name')
Then ftp and send the CSR to the external signer. Once the certificate is signed and placed back into a dataset. Do an insert of the same certificate from the dataset. From the ACF prompt enter command:
INSERT ABC.CERT DSNAME('dataset.name')
set profile(user) div(certdata)
GENCERT ABC.CERT subj(subject details) label(yourlabel)
Followed by a GENREQ putting the newly created certificate into a dataset. From the ACF prompt enter command:
set profile(user) div(certdata)
genreq ABC.CERT DSNAME('dataset.name')
Then ftp and send the CSR to the external signer. Once the certificate is signed and placed back into a dataset. Do an insert of the same certificate from the dataset. From the ACF prompt enter command:
INSERT ABC.CERT DSNAME('dataset.name')
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