System SSL: Modify automated scripts running the gskkyman utility to interact with new menus
Description
When you run the gskkyman program in interactive mode, a series of menus guide you through various tasks, prompting you for each piece of information required to complete the task. In z/OS V2R1 and later, some of the existing gskkyman menus have been refined to make the tasks simpler and more intuitive for the user to perform.
Although users should find the new gskkyman menus clearer and more straightforward, installations that have created automated scripts to interact with the gskkyman menus will need to modify these scripts to work with the new menus. Similarly, if you have created documentation that describes the gskkyman menus, the documentation will need to be updated to describe the new menus.
Table 1 provides more details about this migration action. Use this information to plan your changes to the system.
Element or feature: | Cryptographic Services. |
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When change was introduced: | z/OS V2R1. |
Applies to migration from: | z/OS V1R13. |
Timing: | Before the first IPL of z/OS V2R2. |
Is the migration action required? | Yes, if your installation has automated scripts or documentation for the gskkyman menus. |
Target system hardware requirements: | None. |
Target system software requirements: | None. |
Other system (coexistence or fallback) requirements: | None. |
Restrictions: | None. |
System impacts: | None. |
Related IBM Health Checker for z/OS check: | None |
Steps to take
- Creating a Self-Signed Server or Client Certificate
- Creating a Certificate Request
- Creating a Signed Certificate and Key
- Creating a Signed ECC Certificate and Key
- Creating a certificate to be used with a fixed Diffie-Hellman key exchange
Reference information
For information on the gskkyman program and the menus provided when this program is run in interactive mode, see z/OS Cryptographic Services System SSL Programming.