Encrypting a key ring password in MQIPT in IBM MQ 9.1.4 or earlier

In IBM® MQ 9.1.4 and earlier, encrypted passwords that are used to access the key rings used by MQIPT are stored in files. Follow the procedure in this task to encrypt a key ring password for use by MQIPT in IBM MQ 9.1.4 or earlier.

About this task

From MQIPT in IBM MQ 9.1.5, use the more secure protection method described in Encrypting stored passwords in MQIPT instead.

Procedure

Encrypt the key ring password using the mqiptPW command.
Enter the following command to encrypt the password:
```
mqiptPW password filename
```
where

password

is the clear text password needed to access the key ring

filename

is the name of the password file to be created
The syntax of the mqiptPW command is described in mqiptPW (encrypt stored password).
Set the appropriate route property to the name of the file that contains the encrypted password that was created in step 1.
For example, to specify the password file for the key ring that contains the MQIPT TLS server certificate, add the following line to the mqipt.conf configuration file:
```
SSLServerKeyRingPW=filename
```