Specific Control Options › PASSCHAR—Password Valid Characters

PASSCHAR—Password Valid Characters

Valid on z/OS and z/VM.

Use the PASSCHAR control option to add, replace, or remove characters from the password valid character list. When using PASSCHAR:

• Data can be in hex or character format
• Up to 16 unique characters can be defined
• The list can contain one or more special characters
• To enter more than one special character, separate the characters with a comma

All entry methods are accepted.

This control option has the following format:

TSS MODIFY PASSCHAR(c,c,c,c,c,c,c,c,c,c,c,c,c,c,c,c)

Default: Binary zeros.

Note: Without PASSCHAR set, the following special characters are still valid in new passwords: nNational characters ($, @, #) and characters '{' and '}'.