Printable characters and their hexadecimal values in PSWDPLST and SPECLIST?

Products

• ACF2
• ACF2 - DB2 Option
• ACF2 for zVM
• ACF2 - z/OS
• ACF2 - MISC
• PanApt
• PanAudit

Issue/Introduction

In the description of the GSO(PSWD) field PSWDPLST,  the ACF2 Administrator Guide documents that special password character Not sign (?) uses hex 5F. What are the hex representations for the other special password characters?

 

 

Environment

Release:
Component: ACF2MS

Resolution

 

Character Name	Character	Hex
Asterisk	*	5C
Ampersand	&	50
Not Sign	?	5F
Colon	:	7A
Equal Sign	=	7E
Hyphen	-	60
Exclamation Point	!	5A
Period	.	4B
Percent Sign	%	6C
Question Mark	?	6F
Underscore	_	6D
Vertical Line	|	4F

 

Any other hex values are not allowed to be specified in a password. 

These hex values relate to the US Mainframe Codepage 037 that would be used by terminal emulators when connecting to the mainframe.

Other codepages may provide different hex values for characters and care should be taken when specifying values in the PSWDPLST field.