How to setup ACF2 password control to force a national character in a password

Products

• ACF2

Issue/Introduction

How can ACF2 be setup to enforce that a new password must contain a national character

 

Environment

Release : 16.0

Component : ACF2 for z/OS

Resolution

The control of the password content is in the CONTROL(GSO) PSWD record  

If PSWDSPLT is set and PSWDPLST is not set, at least one national character is required for a new password 

If PSWDSPLT is set and PSWDPLST is also set, then at least one of the national characters and/or the special 
characters must be set in a new password.
If PSWDSPLT is not set, then national characters in the password are optional.

Note: The default national characters are @ # $
The following characters can be added to PSWDPLST

Character	HEX Value	EBCDIC Symbol
Ampersand	50	&
Asterisk	5C	*
Not sign	5F	¬
Colon	7A	:
Equal sign	7E	=
Exclamation point	5A	!
Hyphen	60	-
Percent sign	6C	%
Period	4B	.
Question mark	6F	?
Underscore	6D	_
Vertical line	4F	|