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Mike, I temporarily set the password level to 2 on our mirrored HA
machine several months ago, just to try 128-character passwords.
QINTER subsystem automatically began displaying the QSYS/QDSIGNON2
display file which has the 128-byte password field.
If you have a customized version of the display file, and a password level
of 2 or 3, the subsystem will check the display file. If the display file
does not have room for the 128 character password, it will default to
QDSIGNON2:
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=nas117c5be565b7cd14186256d800046f43a
(rather cool, I think). Every shop I've seen has a customized one, so I
tend to assume that everyone else does as well.
We may eventually go to level 2, as the advantages seem worth it.
We have certainly felt like it was worthwhile. With the new SYSVALs for
passwords it looks even better. The new QPWDRULES options seem to be well
designed. The ability to require 0 - 9 letters, 0 - 9 numbers, and 0 - 9
upper/lower case letters is sweet. The *REQANY3 will let you specify that
passwords must have three out of the following: uppercase letters,
lowercase letters, digits and special characters if at password levels 0
or 1, so there are plenty of enhancements for even those that don't move
to password levels 2 or 3.
And we finally get to control the number of days before password
expiration to begin displaying the warning messages (from 1 to 99). That
will make those users not on SSO here very, very happy.
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