Small letters in PROMPT param in as400

Question

I had command file -

 CMD PROMPT('MY COMMAND FILE')                                     
 PARM KWD(A1) TYPE(*CHAR) VALUES(A1 A2) LEN(11) MIN(1) +    
 PROMPT('MY NAME IS ANDY') RSTD(*YES)                                           
 PARM KWD(A2) TYPE(*CHAR) LEN(250) MIN(1) +                                  
 PROMPT('MY NAME IS BRAWO')

I want to add small letters in PROMPT('my name is andy') param. I tryied to create command file with small letter description but its not allowing me to do so.

What does "not allowing me to do so" mean? What error message are you seeing? — Charles, Apr 18 '17 at 16:34
Is this press F13 allow lower case *yes. or prompt the command F4 and enter the lower case stuff? — danny117, Apr 20 '17 at 15:58

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 18 '17 at 15:21

You can put lower case letters in quotes. If you just key lowercase letters, they are automatically converted to upper case, but anything inside the quotes is kept as is.

CMD PROMPT('MY COMMAND FILE')                                     
PARM KWD(A1) TYPE(*CHAR) VALUES(IdentityIQ IdentityNow) LEN(11) MIN(1) +    
PROMPT('My name is Andy') RSTD(*YES)                                           
PARM KWD(A2) TYPE(*CHAR) LEN(250) MIN(1) +                                  
PROMPT('My name is Brawo')

Now if you are using RDi, you might have a setting to auto uppercase everything. I don't think it upper cases anything in quotes, but if you are having trouble with that you can fix the setting in RDi.

Small letters in PROMPT param in as400

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