Whenever you see a password field that is limited to 8 characters you'll often also see a notice that the minimum value is 6 characters. Why? IBM. CICS[1] ha

Whenever you see a password field that is limited to 8 characters you'll often also see a notice that the minimum value is 6 characters. Why? IBM. CICS[1] had this specific restriction on password length until the 4.2 release in 2011[2]. CICS is hugely popular in the banking industry, which is why you'll see this kind of thing most often with banks. [1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CICS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CICS [2] http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/cicsts/v4r2/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm.cics.ts.whatsnew.doc%2Fpassphrase%2Fdfhe4_overview.html http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/cicsts/v4r2/index.jsp?topi...