Re: Question about support related to Windows 7

[CRPence <CRPbottle@xxxxxxxxx>]

  A password can start with the letter Q with no more issues nor 
restrictions, than whatever would be the concerns for a password that 
starts instead with the letter P.  The Q prefix shenanigans is specific 
to a password that is [or should be recognized as being] all digits. 
That is why the password Q1234 is *the same as* 1234.  I am almost 
positive that a password of Q7CHARLIE is *not* the same as 7CHARLIE; I 
am not interested in trying, and I can not find any documentation about 
the effects.

  I did however find one presumably reliable source that states the 
issue is specific to when the letter Q is "followed only by digits" as 
applied to either a User Profile name or a password of a *USRPRF:
http://securemyi.com/nl/wDec052012.html

  I guess had I continued reading the above, I would have seen that the 
documentation can be found in the "Help text of the CRTUSRPRF (Create 
User Profile) command."  Thus a doc link, even if not a very thorough 
explanation is included below.  No surprise I could not find it, because 
neither "letter Q" nor "all digits" appear.   There is no clarification 
that the Q prefix implicitly limits an all-digit name or an all-digit 
password to only nine characters instead of the typical ten:
http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v7r1m0/topic/cl/crtusrprf.htm
"_User profile (USRPRF)_
Specifies the user profile to be created. A numeric user profile can be 
specified. If the user profile is numeric, it must begin with a Q.
 ...
_User password (PASSWORD)_ When the system is operating at password 
level 0 or 1 and the password is numeric, then the password must begin 
with a Q, for example, Q1234 where 1234 is the password used for signing 
on the system."


Regards, Chuck

On 17 May 2013 07:20, John McKee wrote:
> <<SNIP>>
>
> I had forgotten about the restriction about not starting with q or a
> digit. The two people at IBM had not mentioned that either.
>
> On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 9:08 AM,<rob@xxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
>
> > > <snip>
> > > ... password ...
> > > </snip>
> >
> > <<SNIP>> Must start with a letter. Do not start with a Q.
> >
> > Why not a Q?  Something to do with Q1234 being the same as 1234.