Specific Control Options › PPSCHAR—Special Characters in Password Phrases

PPSCHAR—Special Characters in Password Phrases

Valid on z/OS and z/VM.

Use the PPSCHAR control option to add, replace, or remove characters from the password phrase valid character list.

The list can:

• Be in hex or character format
• Contain special characters from the list below
• Contain up to 18 unique characters separated with a comma

Valid special characters are:

• Ampersand &
• Asterisk *
• At @
• Blank (must be entered in hex)
• Carat ^
• Colon :
• Dollar $
• Equal sign =
• Exclamation mark !
• Hyphen -
• Percentage sign %
• Period .
• Pound (hash) #
• Question mark ?
• Vertical line |
• Underscore _

This control option has the following format:

TSS MODIFY PPSCHAR(c,c,c,c,...)

Example: PPSCHAR control option

This example uses character format to set the special characters to *, &, and %:

TSS MODIFY PPSCHAR(*,&,%)

This example uses hexadecimal format to set the special characters to &, _, and %.

TSS MODIFY PPSCHAR(50,60,6C)

This example resets the PPSCHAR control option:

TSS MODIFY PPSCHAR()