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  • 1.  Exporting certificates ...

    Posted 01/29/24 07:20 AM

    Hello,

    (Busy with distributing certificates for MQ ...) 

    ... Facing an issue in the DCM export process. I have my local CA & Certificate available, and perform an export ... and the export functions fine, and I 'fIle' these cer-files in an IFS directory (getting CCSID 500). Afterwards, I download these files to my workstation ...  but on my Windows workstation, I get already the message these files are not valid. 

    Something wrong in my FTP operation ?

    Although it has to go to a MF server .... I tried an import on another IBMI server (just for vericiation), and the import is failing ... referring to CCSID problems..

    Any idea how to handle ... as I see the export creates the cer-file in IFS with CCSID 500 ..... (while looking at other older cert I see 819).

    Kind regards,

    Jos

    Jozef Thijs



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    Jos (Jozef) Thijs
    Kyndryl Belgium
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  • 2.  RE: Exporting certificates ...

    Posted 01/30/24 11:42 AM

    Dear Josef

    IIRC, CCSID 500 is for EBCDIC encoding used in IBM i (or mainframe) native environment which definitely is NOT one in which a digital certificate is used.  CCSID 819 may work in Windows but CCSID 1252 is better as described in this Technote :  IFS STMF CCSIDs 1252, 437, and 819 at https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/ifs-stmf-ccsids-1252-437-and-819     

    You can change an IFS file's CCSID attribute with this command :  CHGATR OBJ('/mydir/myfile.txt') ATR(*CCSID) VALUE(xxx).  If 1252 or 819 does not help, try 65535.  I'm assuming you use FTP in binary mode.  



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    Chance favors only the prepared mind.
    -- Louis Pasteur
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    Satid S.
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  • 3.  RE: Exporting certificates ...

    Posted 01/30/24 11:43 AM

    Dear Jozef

    I see that CCSID 500 is not for Windows which works with CCSID 1252 but 819 is quite close to 1252 as explained in this Technote :  IFS STMF CCSIDs 1252, 437, and 819 at  https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/ifs-stmf-ccsids-1252-437-and-819.  

    You can change IFS file's CCSID attribute with the command  CHGATR OBJ('/mydir/myfile.file') ATR(*CCSID) VALUE(xxx).  If CCSID 819 does not help. try 65535.  (I'm assuming you use FTP in binary mode.)



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    Chance favors only the prepared mind.
    -- Louis Pasteur
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    Satid S.
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