Switch lost in Symfony Command Line Tools Console

When trying to use the Command Line Tools Console to send symfony commands, e.g. 

sf doctrine:schema:update –force

the switch "-force" seems to get lost, i.e. it becomes

/usr/local/bin/docker-compose exec -T webserver php bin/console doctrine:schema:update

Is there a trick to get the switch not to be lost?

(I'm using the old PHPStorm 2017.2 on OSX. When trying to use 2018.1 I got an error message that the PHP Annotations (needed for the Symfony plugin) plugin is incompatible with 2018.1)