How can I receive case-sensitive data for my CICS program's screen?

Products

• Telon Application Generator

Issue/Introduction

Question: 

How can I receive case-sensitive data for my CICS program's screen?

Environment:  

CA Telon Application Generator

Answer: 

Setting CAPS=OFF in your CA Telon CICS program does not always ensure that data will come from a screen into a CA Telon generated program with both upper- and lower-case characters.

The following suggestions should help this: 

1. In the TDF, on the Update Screen Parms panel (S112), please set CAPS to OFF.
   
   
2. CICS converts lower-case input characters to upper case automatically under some circumstances. The definition of the terminal and the transaction together determine whether translation occurs. Set the UCTRAN (upper-case translation) parameter on the PROFILE and TYPETERM definitions to NO. 

Additional Information:

 

For more information about how the UCTRAN parameter on these two definitions interact, see IBM's documentation regarding the CICS Resource Definition.

Environment

Release:
Component: TELON