Incorporate an issued .pem into Websphere 6 keystore

Question

I have an application running on IBM Websphere 6.1. This application must use SSL to communicate with other similar applications used by other (external) entities. I believe I am the only member of this group that is using Websphere. A certificate issuer that others in my group trust, has issued me a '.pem' file. How do I incorporate that into Websphere?

I have tried using ikeyman to open the keystore and truststore used by Websphere for this application but I cannot figure out how to import the .pem file.

Answer 1

Is this cert being used for email? I believe .pem files are used for email encryption.

Answer 2

you need to incapsulate your pem to pkcs#12 format (use openssl) and then add p12 container to WS configuration.