Using certificates from a commercial certificate authority

If Rational ClearQuest® users come from multiple organizations, then you will probably want to use a certificate from a commercial certificate authority.

If some of your Rational ClearQuest users are with other organizations that are helping with your designs or development, then you will probably want to use a certificate from a commercial certificate authority. IBM Rational ClearQuest supports certificates from a variety of commercial certificate authorities. To see the list of supported commercial certificate authorities, perform the following steps:

  1. If the iKeyman GUI is not open, open it by navigating to the \Program Files\IBM\GSK7 directory and double-clicking gsk7ikm.exe.
  2. Click Key Database File > Open. Enter the name of the key database file. Click OK. Enter the password for the key database file. Click OK.
  3. In the Key database content area, select Signer Certificates from the list.

If you want to use a commercial certificate authority that is not on this list, you can use the iKeyman GUI to add support for the signer certificate from that certificate authority.

Related information
Setting the JAVA_HOME environment variable
Creating a key database
Importing self-signed certificates
Distributing the key database file
Setting the ClearQuest LDAP connection information for SSL

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