Enabling FIPS 140-3 compatibility for CICS Explorer
If you are required to be compliant with the FIPS 140-3 security standard, you can enable this in CICS Explorer by configuring the Java runtime that is used by the CICS Explorer. If you are using the Semeru Runtimes that are provided by CICS Explorer as a default option, see the Enabling FIPS 140-3 instructions in https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/fips-140-3-cryptography-ibm-semeru-runtimes.
Enabling the IBMJCEPlusFIPS provider requires setting system properties that are detailed in the Semeru documentation as mentioned earlier.
- In CICS Explorer, you need to specify system properties at the end of the zosexplorer.ini file
after the
-vmargs
line. Also, system properties must be prefixed by using a-D
, for example,-Dsemeru.fips=true
.