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Workspace Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS
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Created on Aug 31, 2026

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Enable CSPA600W certificate-expiry alerting to evaluate the certificate actively in use from the Secure Plus in-storage cache, not only the ACF2/RACF key ring.

Today, Connect:Direct Secure Plus certificate-expiry alerting (CSPA600W) evaluates the certificate installed in the RACF key ring. However, Connect:Direct runs off the certificate held in its in-storage Secure Plus cache until a Secure Plus Refresh (RF) is issued.

After a certificate renewal these two diverge: the key ring holds the new certificate (outside the CHECK.CERT.EXPIRE.WARN.DAYS window, so CSPA600W correctly goes silent), while the running node continues to use the older cached certificate that is near expiry (without secureplus refresh). This creates a blind spot — no expiry warning is generated for the certificate actually in use, during the exact window when TLS handshake failures occur.

Requested enhancement:

  1. Base CSPA600W (or an equivalent check) on the certificate currently in the Secure Plus in-storage cache.

  2. Generate an alert when the cached certificate diverges from the key ring certificate (a "refresh required" condition).

  3. Provide a supported command/API to query the expiry date of the certificate currently held in the Secure Plus cache, so external automation can validate the active certificate.

What is your industry? Banking
How will this idea be used?

We renew Secure Plus certificates during scheduled change windows across many Connect:Direct nodes. This enhancement would alert us whenever a node's active (cached) certificate is approaching expiry — including the post-renewal, pre-refresh window — so we can act before TLS handshakes fail. It lets us monitor the certificate Connect:Direct is truly using, rather than only the key ring copy, and integrate that state into our existing automation.

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