I wrote some ICSF utilities to fill the holes in the IBM supplied utilities.
See https://github.com/colinpaicemq/EasyICSF

Please contact me offline if you need more help

Colin

On Mon, 19 May 2025 at 20:20, Radoslaw Skorupka <
00000471ebeac275-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:

> I have found KEYXFER utility. It is one of the Tools & Toys (read:
> unsupported), however mentioned in official documentation as a tool to
> do some operations.
> One of the disadvantages of the KEYXFER is... it doesn't work with
> contemporary KDS formats.
> The other one is/was common (shared between systems) MK.
> Nevermind, I have found yet another tools, I'm going to ...find out why
> it doesn't work :-) :-) :-)
>
> --
> Radoslaw Skorupka
> Lodz, Poland
>
>
>
> W dniu 19.05.2025 o 14:55, Eric Rossman pisze:
> > Yeah, I agree that it is a pity. We just didn't have the demand for it
> when AES was implemented in KGUP and your question was the first one I can
> recall. I don't believe that the TRANSKEY is even used when you are
> generating a random AES key but we don't do a great job documenting that
> (we're trying to improve our doc).
> >
> > That said, you have a number of options.
> >
> > One is to do as you suggest and use the same control cards on both
> systems to create identical AES keys.
> >
> > Another option would be to use callable services. ICSF callable services
> are accessible from (almost) any language you can name. I have personally
> implemented calls from C, C++, COBOL, Python, REXX, and ASM (that I can
> think of). I know that PL/I is also supported and I did some research and
> found that GoLang (and any other language that can speak LE) should work.
> >
> > Eric Rossman
> > ---------------------------------
> > ICSF Security Architect
> > z/OS Security
> > ---------------------------------
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On
> Behalf Of Radoslaw Skorupka
> > Sent: Monday, May 19, 2025 8:33 AM
> > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
> > Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: CSFKGUP does not feed CSFSTMNT file
> >
> > It's a pity.
> > How can I (safely) export the AES key to another system?
> > Should I create the statement manually, by using CSFKEYS DD output?
> >
>
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