We had lower case on *our* 3277 displays. YMMV.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of David Spiegel <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, November 19, 2018 1:48 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: So much for THAT excuse | Computerworld SHARK TANK Chuck: 3277? On 2018-11-19 13:32, Chuck Kreiter wrote: > First OS/390 install I did kept failing on the Unix System Services steps. > The terminal I had only did uppercase. Once I swapped it out with one that > did both cases, it worked fine. Beat my head on the desk for a couple of > days on that one. > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Phil Smith III > Sent: Monday, November 19, 2018 1:13 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: So much for THAT excuse | Computerworld SHARK TANK > > Nice. > > > > I once got on a plane to go to a customer site because they could NOT get an > SNMP common string accepted. As I had at least half suspected, they were > entering it in uppercase, despite multiple explicit attempts to get them to > enter it in lowercase. (Yes, I'd suggested WebEx or equivalent; "Not > allowed".) > > > > Customer wasn't even abashed. > > > > Case sensitivity and null-terminated strings: two historical Unix mistakes > that have cost untold billions. > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email > to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > . > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
