Digital certificates are key to AS2 communication for signing and encrypting the data at rest (that is the data that's received). They're also used in data "in flight" - that is the data as it's in transit over the internet - using   S FTP, FTP S or HTTP S (secured forms of communication). Digital certificates are not unique to IBM Sterling B2B Integrator or IBM in general but we handle a large volume of PMRs due to a lack of understanding of digital certificates. Despite blogging on this topic several times and ample... [More]

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BEFORE YOU BEGIN: Confirm with your Trading Partner that the new certificate is in place and ready to be used. Once you change the certificate in their profile our software expects that certificate to be used for signing and encryption. I will discuss in another blog posting the "Go Live" option but for the purposes of the following exercise, when you select this new certificate your Trading Partner must be configured on their end to utilize this same certificate   Once  you've... [More]

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Once you've saved a trading partner's chained certificate off as shown in the " Working With Chained Certificates " the next step is to check that certificate into IBM Sterling B2B Integrator. From the dashboard, select Trading Partner → Digital Certificates → CA and in the “ Check in ” section click Go!   Click the “ Choose File ” button and select the root certificate then click Next >   Then click Finish   Repeat this for the remaining (e.g. the intermediate... [More]

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It's inevitable - a digital certificate expires and you either acquire a new one for your organization or your trading partner sends you a new one. Certificates are also used in SSL secured protocols (FTPS, SFTP and HTTPS). Sometimes you don't even realize the certificate expired until transactions fail.  That's when the panic sets in - you haven't dealt with this in a year or two and you don't remember the steps necessary to fix this. Typically the certificate you receive will have a *.cer file extension (if not, r... [More]

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A Certificate Signing Request (CSR) is a block of encoded text that is given to a Certificate Authority (CA) when applying for an SSL or TLS Certificate. It is usually generated on the server where the certificate will be installed and contains information that will be included in the certificate such as the organization name, common name (domain name), locality, and country. It also contains the public key that will be included in the certificate. A private key is usually created at the same time that you create the CSR, making a key pair.... [More]

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Certificates are used in many ways during an AS2 transfer within Sterling B2B Integartor (SI). When issues occurs related to certificates, it is useful to identify which certificate exactly is causing the issue so that measures can be taken to solve the problem. This blog aims to help you correctly identify and solve certificates related issues in AS2. Certificates in general:   there are different certificates stores in SI where certificates need to be imported depending on the usage, this is done via the UI under "Trading Partner... [More]

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