Well, That will teach me to not post when on a 3 day holiday weekend (in between killing goblins in Trine 2). For some reason, I thought the MODIFY worked like the PARM= in JCL. Live and learn. As another showed, it is not too difficult to properly interpret a ' enclosed MODIFY value. Just a bother to actually _need_ to do so, rather than have the system, or an API, do it for me.
My apologies for the bad information. On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 2:57 PM, Charles Mills <[email protected]> wrote: > John, thanks. > > > E.g To pass the string "This isn't right!", enter F OSTASK,'This isn''t > right!' > > But what I am saying is it does not really work like that, which is part > of what I find annoying. > > F OSTASK,'This isn''t right!' > > appears to me to pass the string > > 'This isn''t right!' > > including the outer quote marks. > > FWIW, > > F OTASK,Thisisn''tright > > (I eliminated the blanks so I could eliminate the quotes) appears to pass > > THISISN''TRIGHT > > Charles > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of John McKown > Sent: Monday, May 26, 2014 12:24 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Passing lower case data on MODIFY > > 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!' > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
