Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Increasing password minimum length

You might want to check the following and put the matching rule in
QPWDRULES:

Note: If any value other than *PWDSYSVAL is specified for
QPWDRULES, the QPWDLMTAJC, QPWDLMTCHR, QPWDLMTREP, QPWDMAXLEN,
QPWDMINLEN, QPWDPOSDIF, and QPWDRQDDGT system values are ignored
when a new password is checked to see if it is formed correctly.


On Tue, Mar 24, 2026 at 2:16 PM Dean Eshleman via MIDRANGE-L <
midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I mentioned in my original message that QPWDRULES was *MINLEN8 and
*REQANY3. Apparently, that was the issue. I have to change QPWDRULES
specifying *MINLEN10 and *REQANY3. That change worked. Thanks.

Dean Eshleman
Software Development Architect, Everence®

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http://www.everence.com/>
1110 North Main Street, PO Box 483, Goshen, IN 46527

From: MIDRANGE-L <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Rob
Berendt
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Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Increasing password minimum length

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I'm sorry. I missed that you had already changed QPWDMAXLEN in addition to
changing QPWDLVL

What do you have for QPWDRULES?

1. If the QPWDRULES system value is any value other than *PWDSYSVAL,
this system value cannot be changed and its value will be ignored when new
passwords are checked to see if they are formed correctly.


On Tue, Mar 24, 2026 at 12:06 PM Dean Eshleman via MIDRANGE-L <
midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>>
wrote:

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®

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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Berendt
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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 <
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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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