Re: Automate Certificate Renewal for DCM and Apache HTTP application

Jim,

Certbot is certainly one option but it doesn't fill in all the blanks.  So, that is why I wrote the application ACME for DCM (used to be LE - Letsencrypt for DCM).  Easy to use UI and then all of the backend is automated.

With a little luck, I'll push it up to the Github repo today or tomorrow.  It will be bundled as a .war file so you could just drop it into a servlet container like Tomcat or Websphere.  Trying to make the setup and operation as simple as possible.   I updated the the info website:  https://acmedcm.valadd.com/ ;  Repo push as soon as I can (at PowerUp in NOLA - so many distractions)

Pete Helgren
www.petesworkshop.com
CISSP - MSCM
GIAC Cloud Penetration Tester
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals

On 4/25/2026 10:34 AM, Jim Franz wrote:

Found this - https://ibmi-oss-docs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/certbot.html -
my first read is its many steps beyond my training.

Looking for a simple solution to renewing SSL cert - having to train
network staff with no IBM i experience.
Pete Helgren had links to a Tomcat solution, but i need for updating the
DCM and an Apache webserver application.

Is the above solution a good way to go?

Jim Franz