On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:27:08 -0500, Richard Peurifoy <r-peuri...@neo.tamu.edu> wrote:
>Ted MacNEIL wrote: >>> Is they reply case sensitive? >> Was it entered in such a way that it was not upper cased? >> >> Since when is a reply case-sensitive? >> We're talking mainframes, here! > >This started on RACF-L, but since you asked here I will answer >here. > >I have seen code that assumed the reply would be upper case, >and the console normally will upper case the reply. However >if the reply is in quotes, or is sent thru SVC 34 I think it >is sent asis. The upper-casing is part of preparing the command for execution, so it would not matter how it entered the system as far as I know. But quoting the operand would prevent the upper-casing, I think, and that would cause problems (at least in this case). -- Walt Farrell, CISSP IBM STSM, z/OS Security Design ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
