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NBDATE and NBTIME Keywords—Date Certificate Activates

Valid on z/OS.

Use the NBDATE and NBTIME keywords to specify the effective date and time the digital certificate becomes active. If not time is specified, it defaults to 0000000. If no date is specified, it defaults to the current day and time. The active date (NBDATE) specified must be earlier than the expire date (NADATE)

The year specified must fall within the range 1950-2049. If an expire date is not also specified, the NBDATE year specified must fall within the range 1950—2048, since the NADATE date defaults to the active day and time plus one year.

The certificate DATE FORMAT are not governed by the DATE parm in CA Top Secret. The format is MM/DD/YY.

The NBDATE specifies the “not before” date of a certificate.

The NBTIME specifies the “not before” time of a certificate.

This keyword has the following format:

TSS REKEY NBDATE(mm/dd/yy)
          NBTIME(hh:mm:ss)

Date and time fields are optional, except if time is specified, date is required.

This keyword is used with:

• The GENCERT, REKEY and RENEW commands
• The ACID types User, DCA, VCA, ZCA LSCA, and SCA
• ACID(MAINTAIN) and MISC4(CERTGEN)authority
• MISC4(CERTSITE) for CERTSITE ACIDs
• MISC4(CERTAUTH) for CERTAUTH ACIDs

Example: NBDATE and NBTIME keywords

This example specifies a deactivation date:

TSS REKEY(user1) DIGICERT(cert0001)
                 NEWDIGIC(CERT0002)
                 NBDATE(09/01/07)
                 NBTIME(11:59:59)

This example specifies a deactivation date:

TSS GENCERT(user1) DCDSN(user1.cert.data)
                   DIGICERT(cert0001)
                   NBDATE(09/01/02)
                   NBTIME(11:59:59)