web administrator for ACF2 support for tls 1.2 for browser to tomcat connection

Products

• ACF2 - z/OS
• WEB ADMINISTRATOR FOR ACF2
• WEB ADMINISTRATOR FOR TOP SECRET

Issue/Introduction

IS there a browser that supports tls1.2 that can be used with CA Web Admin for ACF2
Customer is no longer allowed to use IE at their shop.

 

Environment

Release : 16.0

Component : WEB ADMINISTRATOR

Resolution

Internet Explorer and Firefox  are supported.
For support for TLSv1.2 Tomcat's server.xml needs to be modified

To enable tls1.2 with webadmin 

add  sslEnabledProtocols="TLSv1.2"

 <Connector port="8443" protocol="HTTP/1.1" SSLEnabled="true"
               maxThreads="150" scheme="https" secure="true"
               clientAuth="false" sslProtocol="TLS"
               keystoreFile="cerkey" keystorePass="xxxxxxxx"
               keystoreType="PKCS12" />

change to

 <Connector port="8443" protocol="HTTP/1.1" SSLEnabled="true"
               maxThreads="150" scheme="https" secure="true"
               clientAuth="false" sslProtocol="TLS" sslEnabledProtocols="TLSv1.2"
               keystoreFile="cerkey" keystorePass="xxxxxxxx"
               keystoreType="PKCS12" />