Case-sensitive passwords for nodes and administrator accounts

Starting with IBM Spectrum® Protect 8.1.16, passwords are case-sensitive for the client nodes and administrator accounts that are in SESSIONSECURITY=STRICT state. The passwords are case-insensitive for the client nodes and administrator accounts that are in SESSIONSECURITY=TRANSITIONAL state.

You must specify a case-sensitive password for the STRICT administrators and the client nodes at the time of registering a new account or updating an existing account. You can specify the SET MINPWCHARUPPER and SET MINPWCHARLOWER commands to set the minimum number of upper-case and lower-case alphabetic characters that are required to be in administrator passwords respectively. For these commands, you can specify an integer in the range 0 - 58. The default value is 0.