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Status Not under consideration
Workspace z/VM
Created by Guest
Created on May 29, 2018

RELATED IDEAS

z/VM Lowercase login passwords

Due to internal rules, customer needs to use lower case and upper case combinations in the z/VM users logon password. They are aware that it can be done by installing RACF, but they think it is very complex and expensive to install RACF only to have better passwords policies. A longer password it should be also helpful.

Idea priority High
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Aug 18, 2020

    Consider using an External Security Manager product for mixed-case passwords.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     May 20, 2019

    Without RACF, ACF2, Top Secret, or VM Secure, the passwords are in clear-text in the directory. Adding mixed case support for passwords stored in USER DIRECT would create a false sense of improved security when there isn't any. In today's world, it is an automatic security audit failure to have unencrypted passwords.

  • Guest
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    |     Jun 2, 2018

    I'm curious what product the user has for security. They don't want RACF... do they have VM:Secure? VM:Secure can do mixed case passwords up to two hundred (single-byte) characters long, and store it encrypted.

    Having said that, if CP took the (up to) eight char password and didn't do any translation on it, that seems like a good and simple thing to do. If you really need more than an eight any-thing-you-can-type character password, use an ESM.

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