Re: Question about support related to Windows 7

I submitted an electronic Reader Comment using the _send feedback_ feature from the Create User Profile documentation in the InfoCenter. Although there was no confirmation about the same effect for a user profile name, I implied as such in my feedback.

Regards, Chuck

On 20 May 2013 09:43, Raul A. Jager W. wrote:

Yes, if you change your password to Q7CHARLIE then Q7CHARLIE and
7CHARLIE will be accepted as valid.

CRPence wrote:

So to be sure... You are confirming that the password of Q7CHARLIE
*is* [treated] the same as 7CHARLIE and thus that the documentation
is lacking that clarification [just as there is no mention on the
limit to the password length] because it seems to allude only to
all-digit passwords [just like the other link I provided].?
Therefore the documentation might best have stated instead of "and
the password is numeric", suggested that "and the first character
of the password is numeric" and to have used an example that was
not all-digits to avoid false inferences from the example.? And
presumably the rules are consistent with what happens for the User
Profile names as well.?

<<SNIP>>

http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v7r1m0/topic/cl/crtusrprf.htm
"_User profile (USRPRF)_
Specifies the user profile to be created. A numeric user
profile can be specified. If the user profile is numeric, it
must begin with a Q.
...
_User password (PASSWORD)_ When the system is operating at
password level 0 or 1 and the password is numeric, then the
password must begin with a Q, for example, Q1234 where 1234 is
the password used for signing on the system."