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Status Future consideration
Created by Guest
Created on Jun 4, 2020

Update JAVA to honor default Keyring certificate

Update JAVA so it will honor the default Keyring certificate instead of picking the first personal certificate it finds in a Keyring.

JAVA is being invoked by products like Liberty for z/OS server in a JVM and Java is using JSSE to get digital certificate information from a Keyring or Keystore.

We want Java to be changed so that if a user does not code a serverKeyAlias in the server.xml file, it will use the default certificate in the Keyring instead of the first certificate it reads from the Keyring.

This is extremely necessary when using Keyrings that have multiple personal certificates in them. Without this update, Java will not use the correct certificate in a keyring unless a user codes a serverKeyAlias with the label of a specific certificate.

Idea priority Medium