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Status Future consideration
Created by Guest
Created on Oct 23, 2013

Warn users about SSL certficate expiration

Today there are no alerts if an SSL certificate approach his expiration date.
This can cause service interruptions in traffic MQ if the certificate is not renewed on time.

Idea priority High
RFE ID 40730
RFE URL
RFE Product IBM MQ
  • Admin
    Mark Taylor
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    May 17, 2022

    While we can see potential value in adding this information, this is not something that we can see being implemented in the next 12-18 months. Therefore this suggestion is being declined for now. There are alternative approaches already available for inspecting local keystores/certificates on distributed platforms, such as the runmqakm commands.

  • Guest
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    Mar 23, 2022

    Hi Mark,

    Yes, please add it.

    Regards,
    Wayne

  • Guest
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    Mar 22, 2022

    Merged Idea: QMGR SSL certificate display options

    While openssl commands provide certificate information in a Queue Manager its use is rather intrusive to certain data centers as this is not MQ data that arrives at the remote Queue Manager and this produces a CSQX620E message and a Snap Dump. That message then generates automation alerts for those shops tracking errors, which then translate into Incident Reports that have to be addressed. This involves reaching out to the client site and asking why there was non-MQ traffic on the Channel.

    The openssl command produces this message:

    "+CSQX620E +MQxx CSQXRESP SYSTEM SSL ERROR,"

    " channel ????"

    " connection xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx)"

    " function 'gsk_secure_socket_read' RC=437"

    It would be nice if there were a way to obtain remote Queue Manager SSL information using an MQ command, not involving openssl or Telnet (which also has issues on VIPA networked Queue Managers).


  • Guest
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    Oct 15, 2015

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - WebSphere
    Product family - Integration
    Product - IBM MQ

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - WebSphere
    Product family - Connectivity and Integration
    Product - IBM MQ

  • Guest
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    Nov 25, 2013

    This is something we are considering for a future release of MQ. However, enterprise-level certificate management tools that are used to issue the certs should be generating renewal notices. And MQ does allow enquiry of the certs via the gskit tools like runmqckm so they can be checked manually.

0 MERGED

QMGR SSL certificate display options

Merged
Either a new runmqsc command or a base product supplied binary that allows the queue managers SSL certificate details to be displayed. In particular the expiry date.
over 11 years ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 3 Future consideration
0 MERGED

QMGR monitor SSL certificate expiration and issue warning/event message

Merged
Since the QMGR has the keystore open on the both the distributed and ZoS environments and can see the expiration date of certificates could it not issue warning messages/events to notify asministrator that action is required for a soon to expire c...
over 7 years ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 1 Future consideration
0 MERGED

Enable SSL Certificates expiration monitoring event alert in logs for WebSphere MQ

Merged
Hi Team, We need your help to Enable automated SSL Certificates expiration monitoring event alert in logs for WebSphere MQ, could you please share the steps ?,and also please share the Event IDs that will write in MQ logs Example EventIDs would be...
almost 3 years ago in MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance 0 Future consideration