Conference azur::mcc

3827.0. "How to enter case-sensitive entity instance names on VMS?" by MACROW::RAO () Tue Sep 29 1992 18:16

Hi,

I trying to port some test scripts (containing MCC commands) from ULTRIX to
VMS, we observed some peculiar behavior. Any clues to resolve the problem will
be appreciated.

Case 1
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If the following command is typed at the DCL prompt -

$ manage/enterprise create server foo

The instance-name foo is forced to upper-case (probably by DCL) and the
name seen in the Access Module is FOO.

Case 2
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If the following command  is typed at the DCL prompt -

$ manage/enterprise create server "foo"

The instace name foo(lower-case) is seen as "foo" (including the quotes) in the
access module after the command parser is done with it.

I was expecting to see the entity-name as foo(lower-case) in the second case.
Any clues ?

Unfortunately we are dealing with some databases where case-sensitiveness is
important, but I can't get MCC to strip the quotes and give me the lower-case
name foo. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

/Ravi

P.S. Since these commands are in a command file, we could have done -

$ manage/enterprise -
  create server foo

This will fix it, but the logicals used donot get translated when other
attributes are passed in with the command.