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Set up certificates for the first time

The left frame of Digital Certificate Manager (DCM) is the task navigation frame. You can use this frame to select a wide variety of tasks for managing certificates and the applications that use them. Which tasks are available depends on which certificate store (if any) you have opened and your user profile authority. Most tasks are available only if you have *ALLOBJ and *SECADM special authorities.

When you use Digital Certificate Manager (DCM) for the first time, no certificate stores exist (unless you have migrated from a previous version of DCM). Consequently, the navigation frame displays only these tasks when you have the necessary authorities:

Even if certificate stores already exist on your system (for example, you are migrating from an earlier version of DCM), DCM displays only a limited number of tasks or task categories in the left navigation frame. You must first access the appropriate certificate store before you can begin working with most certificate and application management tasks. To open a specific certificate store, click Select a Certificate Store in the navigation frame.

Certificates can be obtained using either public internet Certificate Authority (CA), such as VeriSign or certificates can be issued from the local private Certificate Authority. The following steps are primarily applicable to certificates issued using the local CA. iSeries or other documentation need to be considered for the steps to obtain certificates from public CA.


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