At 11:47 -0700 on 05/26/2014, Charles Mills wrote about Passing lower
case data on MODIFY:
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.)
A couple of questions.
1) Will the passed parm have imbedded blanks or will it be a single
string of characters?
2) Can there be any imbedded quotes in the parm?
To fix #1, check if the first character is a quote. If so, then pass
starting from the second character and do not pass the last character
(the ending quote). So long as you pass a length, any imbedded blank
should not be an issue.
As to #2, after removing any bracketing quotes, you can either pass
the doubled single quotes or parse and rebuild the parm by converting
the doubled quotes to a single occurrence.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions,
send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
