No. There is no parameter or option to tell z/OS not to do automatic upper case folding of characters in a console command. You must do as you have said, enclose the data not to be folded in ' marks. As in most cases in z/OS, you can indicate a single ' within a ' delimited string by entering two ' marks. The system will only pass a single ' into the program.
E.g To pass the string "This isn't right!", enter F OSTASK,'This isn''t right!' Just to preserve my pedant status I will bore all and sundry with a long, involved, and likely inaccurate discussion as to why z/OS does this. No, just kidding! <grin/> But it does go back to OS/360 (original sourcee likely on cards) and the fact that the original console keyboard entered lower case but to be compatible with the old card equipment (the 026 keypunch didn't _easily_ do lower case), the operating system wanted upper case. Rather than forcing the operators, not usually known for typing ability, to enter COMMANDS IN UPPER CASE, the OS/360 designers just folded the console input, not in quotes, to upper case. On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 1:47 PM, Charles Mills <[email protected]> wrote: > I don't see anything in the MODIFY or EXTRACT documentation (other than > information specific to System Rexx). (I'm sure someone will be happy to > point it out if I missed something <g>.) I'd like to confirm what I am > observing to make sure it is not some bug or mis-observation of my own. It > appears to me that > > F taskname,foo results in FOO being passed to the program. > > F taskname,'foo' results in 'foo' being passed to the program. > > Is there any way to just pass foo -- lower case, no quotes -- on a MODIFY > command? (I don't mind the quotes in the syntax; I can readily live with > that; it's the passing of the quotes into the program that is currently > fouling me up.) > > (Taskname is a z/OS started task.) > > Thanks, > > Charles > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- There is nothing more pleasant than traveling and meeting new people! Genghis Khan Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
