I honestly don't know. 
But Katakana shares the same hex values as lower case English letters. I have 
always had upper case User IDs and passwords. Perhaps it is a RACF restriction?

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> On Sep 13, 2016, at 8:47 PM, Charles Mills <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Sure, but does z/OS tolerate it? Can you use Katakana characters in passwords 
> and userids?
> 
> Charles
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> Subject: Re: z/OS and code pages
> 
> EBCDIC code page 930 supports Japanese kanji and single byte katakana
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