.P12 Or .PFX Certificate With SMPE Internet Service Retrieval And Top Secret

Products

• Top Secret

Issue/Introduction

1) In the procedures to Obtain the Certificates for SMP/E Internet Service Retrieval here, step 2 says:

Go to the Broadcom Support Online Certificate site at:

https://eapi.broadcom.com/receiveorder/getSignedCert.

A certificate dialog opens.

When clicking this link, the options for Extension Type are .p12 and .pfx. Which one should be chosen? What is the difference? 

2) In the following sample JCL, what should be specified for 'host.name' ?

/****************************************
//*          Sample FTP Commands         *
//****************************************
/FTP host.name
User (host.name:(none)): userid
Send password please.Password: xxxxxxxx
ASCII
QUOTE SITE LRECL=84 RECFM=VB
PUT ca-receive-order.cer 'user.mvs.dataset.name'   
PUT digicert_intermediate_2031.crt 'intermed.dataset.name'
PUT digi-root.crt 'root.mvs.dataset.name'
quit

Environment

Release : 16.0

Resolution

1) The .P12 selection is to generate the certificate with a private key, and the .PFX selection will generate the certificate without a private key. It is up to the site to choose which extension they want to use. 

2) ‘host.name’ is your z/OS host name. This step is to copy the certificates from your workstation to your mainframe.