NPE when using SSL DB2 AS400 and the JTOpen JDBC driver

Issue

We are getting a NPE when using SSL DB2 AS400 and the JTOpen JDBC driver.

We realize this might be a problem enmtirely owned by the JTOpen toolkit, but perhaps you are aware of similar reports and can help us.

Now that we have successfully upgraded to JDK 1.6 and JTOpen 6 we are finding problems when turning on SSL  we are getting an NPE, specifically:

Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException

at com.ibm.as400.access.SecureAS400.setKeyRingName(SecureAS400.java:255)

at com.ibm.as400.access.AS400JDBCDriver.initializeAS400(AS400JDBCDriver.java:1043)

at com.ibm.as400.access.AS400JDBCDriver.initializeConnection(AS400JDBCDriver.java:1187)

at com.ibm.as400.access.AS400JDBCDriver.connect(AS400JDBCDriver.java:351)

at org.jboss.resource.adapter.jdbc.local.LocalManagedConnectionFactory.createManagedConnection(LocalManagedConnectionFactory.java:171)