Re: Increasing password minimum length

[Rob Berendt <robertowenberendt@xxxxxxxxx>]

Any chance you are trying to change QPWDMINLEN prior to changing QPWDMAXLEN?

On Tue, Mar 24, 2026 at 11:57 AM Dean Eshleman via MIDRANGE-L <
midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to increase the minimum length of our passwords on our IBM I
> from 8 to 10 characters.  The password level QPWDLVL is set to 2 currently
> which means passwords can be from 1-128 characters.  The value for
> QPWDMAXLEN is 128.  When I look at QPWDRULES, it shows *MINLEN8 and
> *REQANY3.
>
> When I try to change the QPWDMINLEN value to 10 with the following command
> CHGSYSVAL SYSVAL(QPWDMINLEN) VALUE(10), I get an error that says "Specified
> value not allowed for system value QPWDMINLEN."  Pressing F1 on the message
> doesn't provide anything helpful.  Basically it says specify a valid
> value.  I checked in SST to see if the security values were locked and they
> are not.  What am I missing?
>
> Dean Eshleman
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