&CAUSE&> You entered a new password, but it does not differ from your oldpassword by a sufficient number of characters. Procedure Choose a password that differs from your old password by at least &V1&characters. The password you entered differs by only &V2& characters. The number of different characters is calculated as follows:> The two strings are made to overlap as much as possible (by searchingfor the longest common string and rotating as necessary). The number ofdifferent characters (after comparing character-by-character) returnsthe number the system needs. For example:,,Old password:,,"BDAFAG",,(6 characters) ,,,,New password:,,"ABC DBA",,(7 characters) ,,,,After rotation:,,"DBAABC ",,(7 characters) ,,,,==> Number of different characters = 4Procedure for System Administration The system administrator can specify this value using the profileparameter login/min_password_digits>. For more documentation, refer to Maintain Profile Parameters>(transaction RZ11>) |