Hmm.  OK, how about this.  

- He's on a real 3278 with the blue switch which selects:  a,A  /  A

- Or perhaps a 3277, where the display is always in upper-case, even
though the keyboard strokes are in mixed case.  
- Or, while we're grasping at straws, how about this:  Someone removed
that APAR from 1980-something which corrected the boo-boo where CP would
allow a 3270-data stream to be sent in a MSGNOH that could be used to
include like, "Hi Alan!<3270 invisible control char><start field>CP
SHUTDOWN<end field><end invisible>   Next time Alan presses the ENTER
key, KABOOM!

OK, I'm really just making stuff up now.  

(Why am I replying to Alan?  For some reason I didn't get the original
email.  And besides, it's fun to tease the animals in the zoo.)

-----Original Message-----
From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Alan Altmark
Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2008 2:58 PM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: Re: z/VM 5.4.0 CMS commands are now mixed case

On Tuesday, 11/18/2008 at 11:30 EST, "Scully, William P" 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Alan, doesn't the setting of CP TERM MODE have an effect on commands?
> In TERM MODE CP everything is uppercase.

Yes, TERM MODE CP would give the symptoms of upper case input redisplay,

but the example showed the "Ready;" message.  That means it was TERM
MODE 
VM.

Alan Altmark
z/VM Development
IBM Endicott

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