[Info-vax] Possible bug in OpenVMS 8.3

[Jeffrey H. Coffield]

David J Dachtera wrote:
> "Jeffrey H. Coffield" wrote:
>> I found that if you use a lower case string for the SJC$_USERNAME in an
>> itemlist for SYS$SNDJBCW the job gets submitted but will not show up
>> when you do a "$ SHOW ENTRY/USER=xxx". It does show when you do
>> "$ SHOW QUEUE/ALL queuename" and shows the username as lower case.
>>
>> This was on OpenVMS 8.3 on Itanium.
>>
>> Jeff Coffield
>> http://www.digitalsynergyinc.com
> 
> That might not be a "bug", as much as a case-sensitivity issue.
> 
> "DAVID" != "david"
> 
> Hence, trying to do such a match will always fail.
> 
> Try:
> 
> $ SHOW ENTRY/USER="xxx"
> 
> ...and see what happens.
> 
> D.J.D.

I did a little more tesing on OpenVMS 8.3 on Alpha an found that
submitting a job with my username in lowercase does not show up when I
do either

	$ show entry

or

	$ show entry/user=myusername

but does show up when I do

	$ show entry/user="myusername"

but the last one then doesn't show other jobs that I have submitted. If
not a bug, then I would say a non-obvious quirk.

When the job does run, it has my username in uppercase at the end of the
log file before the "job terminated at" date/time and the accounting
utility reports the username in uppercase.


Jeff