Re: Problem in pwd validation program -- RPG400-L

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The docs state that the "length of password" fields are lengths measured in *bytes* (not characters!). So perhaps the GUI interfaces are giving you double-byte characters or 16-bit unicode characters? So that there's 2 bytes per character?

Check the CCSID you're receiving...

sjl wrote:

(not sure where this belongs, posted to both RPG400-L and Midrange-L)

Perplexing problem -

(V5R4M0)

We are testing our new password validation program, and have found a difference in the way that the program works when executed via green-screen versus from a GUI panel.

The value of 'length of new password' (and 'length of old password') passed by the exit point to the password validation program doubles when it is executed via the iSeries Access GUI panel for changing the password (via Navigator or when starting a 5250 session, when the password is expired or about to expire).

For example, if I enter a new password of AAAAAAAA on the green screen CHGPWD, the variable LenOFNEW has a value of 8, but if I enter AAAAAAAA on the GUI password change screen, LenOFNEW has a value of 16.

See code example and description of the problem here:
http://code.midrange.com/b5e4e02b63.html

- sjl

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