Need to Encrypt credentials to DB2 in-transit OM Web Viewer 12.1

Products

• Output Management Web Viewer

Issue/Introduction

We run Linux servers using JDBC drivers to connect to mainframe DB2. The DB2 Team would like the password encrypted when in-transit.  Our current configuration looks like this: jdbc:db2://mvsnbdc-db2db2m.redacted.com:55500/HOMEDB2M:currentSchema=CAWEB; 

We are being asked to change it to this: jdbc:db2://mvsnbdc-db2db2m.redacted.com:55500/HOMEDB2M:currentSchema=CAWEB;securityMechanism=9;encryptionAlgorithm=2;    

Is this acceptable?  Do you see any possible issues? 

Environment

• Output Management Web Viewer 12.1
• Db2

Resolution

You can use any JDBCURL that you want, as long as it works. Web Viewer doesn’t impose any restrictions in it. Try to configure that way on a test server. If it works there, it will work in production.

Additional Information

This worked.