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What do you do if you do not want characters entered by the user to be folded to uppercase?

  1. Use ASCI option on RECEIVE

  2. Use ASIS option on RECEIVE

  3. Use Unicode option on RECEIVE

  4. Use ASCII option on RECEIVE
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Explanation

The ASIS option on RECEIVE preserves user input exactly as typed, without converting characters to uppercase. By default, many systems automatically fold input to uppercase for consistency, but ASIS maintains the original case formatting when needed for case-sensitive processing.

AI explanation

In CICS BMS, the RECEIVE command normally folds lowercase input to uppercase unless you specify the ASIS option, which tells CICS to pass through characters exactly as the user typed them, preserving case. ASCII/Unicode options relate to character encoding translation, not case folding, so they don't address this requirement.

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