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Digital Certificate Manager (DCM) enhancements

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Digital Certificate Manager (DCM) has multiple enhancements to improve the user experience and provide additional functions to the base security components.

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Digital Certificate Manager (DCM) has multiple enhancements to improve the user experience
and provide additional functions to the base security components.
Full replace of the UI for object signing, providing new functions:
Support for object signing store, applications, and actions related to signing objects
Support for the signature verification store and actions related to verifying signatures
Browse and select buttons have been added to multiple panels, eliminating the need to
manually type IFS paths and file names. Examples include:
Browse and select certificate from local file system for import
Browse and select certificate from an IFS path for import
Browse and select from a local file system for export
Browse and select an IFS path for export
Browse and select a KDB file when opening a certificate store
Browse and select files for object signing support
 
To better manage the certificate objects residing in the Upload and Download directory used
for import and export functionality:
Items in the Upload directory
Items in the Download directory
 
Provide the ability to remove the default certificate assignment for the *SYSTEM certificate
store.
 
Added current industry Root and Intermediate CA certificates from well-known certificate
providers for the Populate Certificate Store functionality
For more information on DCM, see the Digital Certificate Manager topic in IBM Documentation

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Modified date:
03 May 2022

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