Case Sensitive Commands Entered in TXACCBUF of the Top Secret Installation Exit (TSSINSTX)

Products

• Top Secret
• Top Secret - LDAP

Issue/Introduction

The Top Secret installation exit (TSSINSTX) has an entry point called COMMAND. When the COMMAND entry point is called, the TSS command buffer is addressed by the parameter list pointer "TXACCBUF". Is the TSS command presented in the case entered by the user, or have the keywords been upper cased? 

Resolution

When the TSS command is presented to the installation exit, the command has already gone through parsing which will upper case all keywords and any data that is not marked as a mixed case field by the FDT. Also, data within comments is not upper cased.