Xperience Password Requirements & Reason Codes
Password Rules:
- Passwords may have a maximum length of 128 characters (green screen) 34 characters (browser, Synergy), and must have a minimum of 8 characters.
- Password first character must be an alpha letter A through Z.
- Passwords must contain at least 2 alpha letters A through Z.
- Passwords must contain at least 1 but no more than 4 numeric characters 0 through 9.
- Passwords must have at least one special character.
- Passwords may contain upper and lower-case letters.
- Passwords may not have repeating characters (AAAAAAA).
- Passwords can contain repeating characters if they are different cases (AaBbCc).
- Passwords may not be the same as the last 12 passwords used.
- Passwords must be changed a minimum of every 90 days.
- Passwords can only be changed once every 24 hours by the user.
Password Length Verified by the iSeries Security System:
- Password length will be checked by the iSeries Security system each time you enter a new password.
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Any password you enter with less than eight characters in length, the message Password value not Valid. Reason Code 19. appears at the bottom of your screen.
The reason codes for invalid passwords are:
- 1-password does not contain enough letter characters
- 2-password does not contain enough digit characters
- 3-password does not contain enough special characters
- 4-password contains too many letter characters
- 5-password contains too many digit characters
- 6-password contains too many special characters
- 7-password begins with a letter character
- 8-password begins with a digit character
- 9-password begins with a special character
- 10-password ends with a letter character
- 11-password ends with a digit character
- 12-password ends with a special character
- 13-password contains adjacent letter characters
- 14-password contains adjacent digit characters
- 15-password contains adjacent special characters
- 16-password does not contain enough mixed case letter pairs
- 17-password does not contain characters from 3 character categories
- 18-password contains user profile name
- 19-password does not contain enough characters
- 20-password contains too many characters
- 21-password contains a character used more than once
- 22-password contains a character repeated consecutively
- 23-same character in same position as previous password