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Status Future consideration
Workspace UrbanCode
Categories Deploy
Created by Guest
Created on May 11, 2023

Configure AT-TLS-Usage in Mainframe Agents

We would like to set per zos-agent if AT-TLS should be used for encryption or not. Also, the default port of the protocol configured in the URL should be used automatically.

Our zOS systems are configured to use AT-TLS for external repository Nexus.

We tried using https://<nexus> in buztool.properties to store component versions to nexus. This leads to the problem that IBM JRE (buztool) AND AT-TLS encrypt the traffic. Since nexus decrypts only once, the traffic remains encrypted once.

There is a workaround: configure buztool.properties with http://<nexus>:443. But this URL cannot be used in "normal" systems and irritates normal users

The advantage of this idea is that different AT-TLS configurations of uploading and downloading agents would be possible, because the Nexus URL at the uploaded component version would work for all agents. In addition, the confusing workaround URL could be avoided.

Idea priority Medium