Display and dumping security policies in AMS

Use the dspmqspl command to display a list of all security policies or details of a named policy depending on the command-line parameters you supply.

Before starting

• To display security policies details, the queue manager must exist, and be running.
• We must have the necessary authority to connect to the queue manager and create a security policy.
  • On z/OS, grant the authorities documented in The message security policy utility (CSQ0UTIL).
  • On other platforms other than z/OS, we must grant the necessary +connect, +inq and +chg authorities using the setmqaut command.

  For more information about configuring security see Set up security.

Here is the list of dspmqspl command flags:

Command flag	Explanation
-m	Queue manager name (mandatory).
-p	Policy name.
-export	Adding this flag generates output which can easily be applied to a different queue manager.

Example

The following example shows how to create two security policies for venus.queue.manager:

setmqspl -m venus.queue.manager -p AMS_POL_04_ONE -s sha256 -a "CN=signer1,O=IBM,C=US" -e NONE
setmqspl -m venus.queue.manager -p AMS_POL_06_THREE -s sha256 -a "CN=another signer,O=IBM,C=US" -e NONE

This example shows a command that displays details of all policies defined for venus.queue.manager and the output it produces:

dspmqspl -m venus.queue.manager

Policy Details:
Policy name: AMS_POL_04_ONE
Quality of protection: INTEGRITY
Signature algorithm: SHA256
Encryption algorithm: NONE
Signer DNs:
  CN=signer1,O=IBM,C=US
Recipient DNs: -
Toleration: 0
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Policy Details:
Policy name: AMS_POL_06_THREE
Quality of protection: INTEGRITY
Signature algorithm: SHA256
Encryption algorithm: NONE
Signer DNs:
  CN=another signer,O=IBM,C=US
Recipient DNs: -
Toleration: 0

This example shows a command that displays details of a selected security policy defined for venus.queue.manager and the output it produces:

dspmqspl -m venus.queue.manager -p AMS_POL_06_THREE

Policy Details:
Policy name: AMS_POL_06_THREE
Quality of protection: INTEGRITY
Signature algorithm: SHA256
Encryption algorithm: NONE
Signer DNs:
  CN=another signer,O=IBM,C=US
Recipient DNs: -
Toleration: 0

In the next example, first, we create a security policy and then, we export the policy using the -export flag:

setmqspl -m venus.queue.manager -p AMS_POL_04_ONE -s SHA256 -a "CN=signer1,O=IBM,C=US" -e NONE

dspmqspl -m venus.queue.manager -export

On z/OS, the exported policy information is written by CSQ0UTIL to the EXPORT DD.

On platforms other than z/OS, redirect the output to a file, for example:

dspmqspl -m venus.queue.manager -export > policies.[bat|sh]

To import a security policy:

• On Windows, run policies.bat.
• On UNIX:
  1. Log on as a user that belongs to the mqm IBM MQ administration group.
  2. Issue . policies.sh.

• On z/OS use the CSQ0UTIL utility, specifying to SYSIN the data set containing the exported policy information.

Parent topic: Manage security policies

Related information

• Complete list of dspmqspl command attributes