Remove EXIT CODE(0) -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of Steely.Mark Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2025 12:48 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Edit macro CHANGE not preseriving case
This is not using REXX. ISREDIT MACRO ISREDIT CAPS OFF ISREDIT CHANGE "LOWER" "lower" word all ISREDIT RESET EXIT CODE(0) Thanks -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of Phil Smith III Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2025 12:43 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Edit macro CHANGE not preseriving case ! CAUTION! EXTERNAL SENDER! STOP, ASSESS, AND VERIFY Do you know this person? Were you expecting this email? If not, report it using the Report Phishing Button! Assuming your code is Rexx, what you're missing is that your double quotes are being consumed by Rexx. What you're passing on the CHANGE is: (variable) ISREDIT (space) (variable) CHANGE (space) (literal) LOWER (space) (literal) lower (space) (variable) WORD (space) (variable) ALL Now, none of those variables have (presumably) been set, so their values are the uppercase versions of the variable name. Thus what ISPF sees is: ISREDIT CHANGE LOWER LOWER WORD ALL In other words, your quotes aren't getting to ISPF. Hence the quotes in Chip's version: "ISREDIT CHANGE 'LOWER' 'lower' word all" That makes the ENTIRE command a literal to Rexx, so it gets passed as is (minus the single quotes), and ISPF sees what you want it to see. Make sense? This is basic Rexx stuff but gets confusing with ISPF in the mix because of the quotes thing. My usual rule of thumb is to use single quotes for Rexx literals, so I can use the double quotes inside for ISPF. You could also double the quotes, but that gets super-fugly and even more confusing: ISREDIT CHANGE """LOWER""" """lower""" word all That will mean ISPF sees: (variable) ISREDIT (space) (variable) CHANGE (space) (literal) " (literal) LOWER (literal) " (space) (literal) " (literal) lower (literal) " (space) (variable) WORD (space) (variable) ALL In Rexx, it's a very good idea to ALWAYS know what's a literal and what's a variable and to quote all literals. It not only avoids problems but is also more efficient. (The "problems" part comes when you have that line as you wrote it working, and then someone assigns variable LOWER to some value and all hell breaks loose!) -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of Steely.Mark Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2025 1:07 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Edit macro CHANGE not preseriving case I have the same issue - this is the code I use: ISREDIT MACRO ISREDIT CAPS OFF ISREDIT CHANGE "LOWER" "lower" word all ISREDIT RESET EXIT CODE(0) I did test the REXX version below and that did work - is there a way to get this version to work ? Thank You -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of Phil Smith III Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2025 11:57 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Edit macro CHANGE not preseriving case ! CAUTION! EXTERNAL SENDER! STOP, ASSESS, AND VERIFY Do you know this person? Were you expecting this email? If not, report it using the Report Phishing Button! Thank you! As a long-time XEDIT maven I'd been looking for such a book, for some reason never found it before. 488pp, that'll take a while to digest... -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of Grantham, Chip Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2025 12:42 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Edit macro CHANGE not preseriving case Google z/OS 3.1 ISPF Edit and Edit Macros -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of Phil Smith III Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2025 11:37 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Edit macro CHANGE not preseriving case What does 'Macro ()' do? Pointer to doc would be great if you have it! -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of Grantham, Chip Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2025 12:32 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Edit macro CHANGE not preseriving case Try this: /* REXX */ address isredit 'Macro ()' 'CAPS OFF' 'CHANGE "AAA" "Aaa"' all Exit -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of ITschak Mugzach Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2025 11:25 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Edit macro CHANGE not preseriving case I wrote a simple edit macro to change the case of a text. but it is still keeping the old case and not folding to lower case. for example: /* Rexx */ Address ISREDIT CAPS OFF CHANGE 'AAA' 'Aaa' ALL What am I doing wrong? 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