Bob Shannon wrote:
In the days of paper dumps, the letter agencies used to cut out the sensitive stuff before giving the dumps to IBM.
Some of our "super secret" customers will provide only snippets from a dump; you have to ask for each and every IPCS command you want issued -- it's a time-consuming process.
One such customer takes the dump output and runs it through a filter that changes both hex and character versions of anything that looks the least bit sensitive (userids, system names, job names, etc.) into 'xxxxxxxx'. Looks kinds funny to see 'xxxxxxxx' in the hex portion of a dump! It also makes solving the problem *much* more difficult!
Their need for super secrecy is, of course, understandable. They're fighting a war. We do the absolute best we can for them.
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