RE: Digital Certificate Woes

Was this restored from another system? If so, try this:

Restoring DCM information when migrating to another system
If you are migrating all users from system A to system B, and you have already set up your Digital Certificate Manager (DCM) information on system B, follow these steps to preserve the DCM information on system B:

Save the user profiles and authorities by using the Save Security Data (SAVSECDTA) command on both system A and system B.
Restore the user profiles from system A to system B by using RSTUSRPRF USRPRF(*ALL).
Restore the DCM information from system B to system B by using RSTUSRPRF USRPRF(*NONE) SECDTA(*DCM).
The first Restore User Profiles (RSTUSRPRF) command replaces the DCM data from the VFYOBJ.KDB file and the stash password index on system B with the data from system A. The second RSTUSRPRF command restores the DCM data that was originally on system B back to its original state.

I would try the RSTUSRPRF USRPRF(*NONE) SECDTA(*DCM)

Link to what I found: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v5r4/index.jsp?topic=%2Frzahu%2Frzahudcmbackuprecover.htm



Chris Bipes
Director of Information Services
CrossCheck, Inc.
-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Rich Loeber
Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2013 7:03 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Digital Certificate Woes

I'm trying to create a new digital certificate (v5r4) which is something
that I've done many times before. Today, every time I try to create the
certificate, I'm seeing the following error description:

Password not stashed for certificate store.

You must change the password for the certificate store to ensure Digital
Certificate Manager stores the password properly. After changing the
password, you must re-open the certificate store and enter the new
password before you can re-try the task that caused the error.

If you do not have authority to change the password, contact your system
administrator. Once the password is changed, you should be able to
complete the task successfully.

I go through the process to change the certificate store password and save
it, then reopen the store using the new password but when I try to create
the certificate again - it loops back to this error.

I've tried shutting down the admin server instance and restarting that
from scratch, but I'm getting nowhere with this.

Has anyone run into this before?