# SSL migration steps

This section deals with steps for migrating Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) connections to work with WebSphere® MQ Version 7.0.

Migrating SSL connections to work with WebSphere MQ Version 7.0 consists of several steps:

1. Ensuring WebSphere MQ certificate stores contain complete certificate chains
2. Migrating SSL certificates to Global Security Toolkit key database files
3. Converting Certificate Revocation Lists
4. Ensuring SSLPEER values have correctly ordered OU entries

- Step 1: Ensuring WebSphere MQ certificate stores contain complete certificate chains
  This section deals with ensuring that complete certificate chains exist in the WebSphere MQ certificate store. This should be completed before installing WebSphere MQ Version 7.0.
- Step 2: Migrating SSL certificates into Global Security Toolkit database files
  This section deals with migrating SSL certificates into Global Security Toolkit key database files and must be performed after installing WebSphere MQ Version 7.0.
- Step 3: Converting Certificate Revocation Lists and Authority Revocation Lists
  This section describes how to convert the Certificate Revocation Lists and Authority Revocation Lists.
- Step 4: Ensuring SSLPEER values have correctly ordered Organizational Unit entries
  This section describes how to check that the SSLPEER Organizational Unit (OU) values are in the correct order and how to change them if they are not.

Parent topic: Migrating Windows Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) connections