During migration, you may need to convert a PCF CKDS into ICSF CKDS format if:

• PCF applications running on ICSF use keys stored in a PCF CKDS.
• Your installation uses the PCF key generator utility program to create keys and uses ICSF for other cryptographic operations. To use the keys in ICSF applications, you must convert the PCF CKDS.

ICSF provides a PCF conversion program, CSFCONV, that converts a PCF CKDS into an ICSF CKDS. The conversion program runs with certain defaults. The program converts all the entries in a PCF CKDS and converts the PCF key types into certain corresponding ICSF key types. You can use the conversion program override file to instruct the conversion program not to convert certain entries. You can also tell the conversion program to convert a PCF key type into a different ICSF key type than the default.

These topics describe how:

• The conversion program runs with certain defaults
• To use the override file to make it run differently
• To run the conversion program