Managing certificates

The certificate management menu on the IBM Db2 Analytics Accelerator Console consists of several functions to manage SSL certificates for IBM Integrated Synchronization. You can list all installed certificates, remove obsolete certificates, create, download, and activate new certificates, as well as activate certificates that were already transferred to the accelerator from a secure DDF port.

About this task

IBM Integrated Synchronization uses secure-socket-layer (SSL) encryption. With this technology, a Db2 subsystem uses a certificate to authenticate itself to an accelerator. The certificate is issued by RACF®, then transferred to the accelerator, from where you finally import it using the console. If you want to change the certificate, you must stop incremental updates before the change, and re-enable these after. In the past, this required a reload of all replicated tables on the accelerator. The certificate management functions on the IBM Db2 Analytics Accelerator Console make the reload step superfluous, which saves a lot of time.