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Status Not under consideration
Workspace MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance
Created by Guest
Created on Oct 5, 2022

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New amqrmppa process copy the keystore content from first amqrmppa process

According to the IBM Doc (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/ibm-mq/9.0?topic=repository-refreshing-queue-managers-key), after changing the contents of a key repository, the queue manager does not immediately pick up the new contents until "REFRESH SECURITY", it is to prevents the situation where multiple running channels could use different versions of a key repository.

However, from the actual case, we see that newly created amqrmppa process will load the cert content from key repository again, that mean by whatever reason if the key repository is updated but "REFRESH SECURITY" not be done, there is a chance that different version of a key repository can be loaded by the queue manager. It violates the idea "As a security control, only one version of a key repository can be loaded by the queue manager at any time".

Suggesting for newly created amqrmppa process copy the keystore content from first amqrmppa process, so that only one version of a key repository is used in the QM.

Idea priority High
  • Admin
    Mark Taylor
    Reply
    |     Oct 18, 2022

    While we will look at ensuring documentation is clear on the capability, this is not something we would plan to implement - in fact, there are more requirements around making the refresh more automatic like other attributes.

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