Uppercase translation

CICS® converts lower case input characters to uppercase automatically under some circumstances. The definition of the terminal and the transaction together determine whether translation occurs.

See the UCTRAN option of the PROFILE and the TYPETERM resource definitions for how these specifications interact.

You can suppress this translation by using the ASIS option on your RECEIVE MAP command, except on the first RECEIVE in a task initiated by terminal input. (The first RECEIVE may be either a RECEIVE MAP (without FROM) or a terminal control RECEIVE.) CICS has already read and translated this input, and it is too late to suppress translation. (Its arrival caused the task to be invoked, as explained in How tasks are started .) Consequently, ASIS is ignored entirely in pseudoconversational transaction sequences, where at most one RECEIVE MAP (without FROM) occurs per task, by definition. For the same reason, you cannot use ASIS with the FROM option (see Formatting other input).