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PeterPotkay
PostPosted: Wed Aug 14, 2013 3:53 am    Post subject: DataPower to MQ - No Security Exits, MQ CCDT or MQclient.ini Reply with quote

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Looking at the latest Infocenter for DataPower, version 6 of the Firmware, there doesn’t appear to be anyway to specify a client side security exit. Is SSL the only way to establish an authenticated connection from DP to MQ?

I also don’t see any way of using an MQ Client Channel Table, or an mqclient.ini file.

Do the DataPower creators consciously choose not to allow for exits, channel tables and client ini files, or is this a gap that might be remediated with a Request For Enhancement? Before I take the time to write one up I wanted to check here if it even made sense. In a conversation I had with my computer screen I made the argument that maybe this is by design because exits, tables and ini files all require something to be placed (‘installed’ in the case of the exit) on the appliance which is a no-no. But stylesheets and SSL Certs are allowed to be placed on the appliance, so why not other stuff?

DataPower Firmware 6 Infocenter:
http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/wsdatap/v6r0m0/index.jsp
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 14, 2013 4:23 am    Post subject: Re: DataPower to MQ - No Security Exits, MQ CCDT or MQclient Reply with quote

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PeterPotkay wrote:
Looking at the latest Infocenter for DataPower, version 6 of the Firmware, there doesn’t appear to be anyway to specify a client side security exit. Is SSL the only way to establish an authenticated connection from DP to MQ?

I also don’t see any way of using an MQ Client Channel Table, or an mqclient.ini file.

Do the DataPower creators consciously choose not to allow for exits, channel tables and client ini files, or is this a gap that might be remediated with a Request For Enhancement? Before I take the time to write one up I wanted to check here if it even made sense. In a conversation I had with my computer screen I made the argument that maybe this is by design because exits, tables and ini files all require something to be placed (‘installed’ in the case of the exit) on the appliance which is a no-no. But stylesheets and SSL Certs are allowed to be placed on the appliance, so why not other stuff?

DataPower Firmware 6 Infocenter:
http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/wsdatap/v6r0m0/index.jsp

I believe the current doctrine is to implement a channel table as a load balanced connection ?
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 14, 2013 6:27 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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DataPower is an appliance, that's secure out of the box.

Allowing use of client-side exits would be allowing use of user-developed code, and would then open up a huge security hole.

It would also require publishing sufficient information about the hardware platform and OS behind the datapower box to allow someone to compile an exit that could actually run on DataPower.

Again, a security hole (at least in one sense).

A CCDT would be much easier to secure - as you say, it's not a lot different than a stylesheet or an SSL Cert. I can't comment on why it's not allowed, except perhaps that parsing it would require something that is outside the MQ client code currently being used by DP. (I don't know why that would be so, either.)
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