Re: mixed case passwords

The default symbology for most scanners is code 3 of 9, which is numbers
and upper case numbers only.
Most modern readers are able to read lots of symbologies. Conceivably,
if they used a different symbology,
this behavior (of having passwords bar coded), could continue. :)

On Mon, Nov 13, 2023 at 6:06 PM Roger Harman <roger.harman@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Have you looked at the scanner configuration? Usually, they are pretty
flexible. I'd guess that they're configured to uppercase all scanned
characters.

Of course, turning on mixed case could adversely affect your other apps.

Roger Harman
COMMON Certified Application Developer - ILE RPG on IBM i on Power



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Berendt
Sent: Monday, November 13, 2023 12:21 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: mixed case passwords

No Patrick, I think it's more to do with the difficulty of keying
characters on those scanners with 5250 screens built in.
Actually the first time I tried my password on one, I was immediately
interested in the possibility of doing this very same thing. Downloaded
barcode fonts so that I could print it and everything. Never dawned on me
that the scanners we use have difficulty with case. So I never got it to
work.
Just stood to reason that if I thought of it, others probably did too.

I got an off list reply from someone who is doing this just because of the
difficulty of keying characters on his scanners. And his support
multicase, etc.

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