RE: [EXTERNAL] Re: Increasing password minimum length

Rob,

Since QPWDMAXLEN is already set to 128, I wasn’t planning on changing it. I just need to change the minimum length to 10.

Dean Eshleman
Software Development Architect, Everence®

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From: MIDRANGE-L <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Rob Berendt
Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2026 12:03 PM
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Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: Increasing password minimum length

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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<mailto: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
Software Development Architect, Everence(r)

P: (574) 533-9515 | TF: (800) 348-7468 | W: everence.com<
http://www.everence.com/>
1110 North Main Street, PO Box 483, Goshen, IN 46527

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