What's new for IBM® i 7.2

Read about new or significantly changed information for the Digital Certificate Manager (DCM).

  • Added support for Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (ECDSA) for Local Certificate Authority, *SYSTEM, and Other Keystores. For more information, see Certificate algorithms.
  • Added support to select the messages digest algorithm that is used by the Local Certificate Authority. For more information, see Certificate algorithms.
  • Added support for the creation of more than one Local Certificate Authority. For more information, see local Certificate Authority in the Certificate stores topic.
  • Added support for assigning up to four certificates to Application definitions in the *SYSTEM certificate store.
  • Added new support to DCM Application Definitions for some System SSL attributes.
  • There is no longer a Client authentication supported field on application definitions because all application definitions support client authentication. Therefore, the requirement to set the Client authentication supported field to Yes no longer exists when defining a CA trust list for an application.

How to see what's new or changed

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  • The End of change image to mark where new or changed information ends.

To find other information about what's new or changed this release, see the Memo to Users.