Preparing IBM Connect:Direct for Secure Plus Operations

After you set up the Connect:Direct® Secure Plus environment, you must prepare IBM® Connect:Direct to use Connect:Direct Secure Plus.

To set up IBM Connect:Direct to run with Connect:Direct Secure Plus:

  1. Add the following parameter to the Connect:Direct for z/OS® initialization parameters: SECURE.DSN=filename, where filename is the name of the Connect:Direct Secure Plus parameter file for that node.
  2. If you are operating in a CD/Plex environment or if you did not specify the entire path to the Certificate Path Name on the Local record, add the SECURE.SSL.Path.Prefix=prefix parameter, where prefix is the prefix location of the key database or key ring that contains the certificates for the TLS or SSL protocol.
  3. Restart IBM Connect:Direct on that node.
  4. To verify that Connect:Direct Secure Plus for z/OS initialization is complete, after you restart IBM Connect:Direct with SECURE.DSN, review the started task output for the following messages: SITA028I Secure+ initialization and SITA165I Secure+ initialization complete, if you are using the TLS or SSL protocol.
See Planning for System SSL in FIPS Mode.