Managing Digital Certificates across the Enterprise

Introducing z/OS PKI Services

This chapter gives you a brief overview of what z/OS PKI Services can provide to accommodate the management considerations and shows how flexible it can accommodate the certificate lifecycle.

This chapter includes the following topics:

•3.1, “Goals” on page 28

•3.2, “z/OS PKI Services functions” on page 28

•3.3, “z/OS PKI Services elements overview” on page 33

•3.4, “Added value of z/OS PKI Services” on page 39

•3.5, “Certificates across the enterprise” on page 41

•3.6, “What is next?” on page 42

3.1 Goals

In this ...