Howard Brazee wrote:
On 21 May 2007 12:33:45 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andy Wood)
wrote:
The magnetron in my microwave oven cycles at a sub-nanosecond rate. That
does not mean it would be be suitable as a low drift clock source.
Personal computers have had built in clocks forever - but they
Thompson, Steve wrote:
[...]
The magnetron in my microwave oven cycles at a sub-nanosecond rate. That
does not mean it would be be suitable as a low drift clock source.
snip
Would that be because it does not have any missing-beat detection
micro-code (no pun intended) and would as a result
McKown, John wrote:
I run Linux at home, not Windows. I use a VPN to get into work. In the
past, I've used x3270 to do 3270 type work. I recently got Crossover
Linux which can run __some__ MS Windows application under Linux. Just
for fun, I tried an old version of QWS3270 that I purchased from
We have some management here with in their eyes wanting to stop the
payment of our SAS mainframe licenses. They want us to move all our SAS
workload (including MXG) onto a Unix box.
Anyone out there done it?
How painful was the experience?
Does anyone have any experiences using the SAS
Bruno Sugliani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
On Fri, 18 May 2007 07:31:02 -0500, Bruno Sugliani
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, 18 May 2007 14:05:23 +0200, Vernooy, C.P. - SPLXM
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello list,
We have a TS7700 VTS in a grid
We have a scenario where we want to be able to clone a DB2 system (using
flashcopy) and then vary off all the disks pointing at the 'original' system
and vary on the 'cloned DB2'. We then want to do some load testing against
the DB2 system. Then when we are finished we want to swap them back again
Hi Tony,
Never done it myself but could you take export backup of MVS catalog before you
start working on cloned system and when you plan to get back to original do
import back from exported copy. Looks like it should work.
Regards,
Vinod Kumar
From: IBM
Brian,
SAS licence fees in constellations similar to yours where SAS is
(perceived to be) used mainly for MXG/ITRM purposes are a constant
source of concern in mainframe shops. You will find this topic
being discussed again and again on MXG-L.
http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/scripts/wa.exe?A0=MXG-L
IIRC, there was also a head of string 3350 that would act as a controller.
No, the HOS (A-unit) was required to connect to the 3880.
B-units were the next in line.
I think the last was a C-unit, but that might have been on for 3330's.
(That last part is an entry in my dimmer parts of my own
On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 00:01 -0500, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
Since the RM requires a one-to-one correspondence between target
zones and the SMPLTS, SMPMTS, SMPSCDS, and SMPSTS, are these
considered target data sets?
Must admit this question had me confused for a while.
Possibly I contributed
Could we keep MXG without SAS and run it using WPS instead?
Barry Merrill has stated (a few times) on the MXG forum that he (or WPS) is not
ready to certify WPS for MXG.
Have you looked into SAS Institute's version of sub-capacity licencing?
-
Too busy driving to stop for gas!
For SAP customers, this is a routine requirement.
Check out IBM Redbook SAP on DB2 for z/OS and OS/390: DB2 System
Cloning.
http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg246287.html
From the above web page:
-=-=-=-
Abstract
This IBM Redbook shows the different techniques customers can use to
G'day list,
We are having a response problem with an E/Cobol module that has just being
converted from COBII. It is called from an HLASM module not using LE.
Before the conversion the checkpoint were being taken at 20 seconds ( 500
deletes to the data base ( IMS ). Initial run took that to a
Yep, moved SAS and MXG onto a dual processor Intel box running Redhat
Linux. Downloaded all SMF via Gigabit connection, and processed it, and
uploaded reports. Ran faster, much less expensive, and all SAS programs
ported asis. Of course, you have to buy SAS for Linux, but is still
much less
Ted MacNEIL wrote:
IIRC, there was also a head of string 3350 that would act as a controller.
No, the HOS (A-unit) was required to connect to the 3880.
B-units were the next in line.
I think the last was a C-unit, but that might have been on for 3330's.
(That last part is an entry in my
Shane wrote:
On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 00:01 -0500, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
snip
I am completely naive of indirect cataloguing. What book should
I read?
Init and Tuning ref from memory - maybe look for indirect volume
support (or somesuch) references.
snip
See:
- The parameters for DEFINE
In [EMAIL PROTECTED],
on 05/17/2007
at 09:38 AM, MASSIMO BIANCUCCI [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
So I think somewhere in the system there's a control block or
whatever that make me able to find out which dsname is the member in.
There is, but it's far easier to do a BLDL first. That way you can get
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 05/15/2007
at 10:08 AM, Paul Gilmartin [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
As far as I know, this job will run without error even if the owner
has ACCESS=NONE to SYS1.WHATEVER. But for nearly three hours other
users will be unable to allocate SYS1.WHATEVER. There ought to be
In [EMAIL PROTECTED],
on 05/16/2007
at 03:37 PM, GAVIN Darren * OPS EAS [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
The LRECL is driven by 4 bytes (first two bytes as nulls) inserted in
front of each record to hold the record length as a binary integer.
The length is in the first 16 bits, not the last 16 bits.
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on
05/17/2007
at 01:30 PM, Robert Pelletier [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Is there a way to see what e-mail is queued to go or a log to see
what goes on after an e-mail is sent from the frame?
That depends on what MTA you are using. Certainly sendmail records an
audit trail on
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on
05/17/2007
at 02:32 PM, Robert Pelletier [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
We are trying to send the mail to a server ##.#.##.## and it tries to
send the mail but says undeliverable:
TEST.CSLF.ORG unable to deliver following mail to recipient(s):
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 21 May 2007 16:59:17 -0500, Kenneth E Tomiak
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Way too much work for me, I would write a one line rexx command named
book:
return 0 /* rexx */
and let it act as if it had nothing assigned to PF6.
If you name it BOOK it won't do anything. BOOK is defined in
(I worked on a *lot* of 3330s. We had something close to half an acre of them
in the data center.)
I started with 3330's.
And, I remember when STK (STC) showed us their first ICEBERG, and the size of
the device was that of a standard conference table, weighed less and had the
capacity of an
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Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 1:25 AM
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Subject: Re: TN3270 emulator on Linux.
McKown, John wrote:
I run Linux at home, not Windows. I use a VPN to get into
-8snip-
We are having a response problem with an E/Cobol module that has just being
converted from COBII. It is called from an HLASM module not using LE.
-8snip-
If I understand the problem correctly, this is possibly relevant
On Thu, 17 May 2007 15:04:35 -0500, Matthew Stitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Go into SDSF. Type the command KEYS. Change them to whatever you want and
save. New keys will be stored in the users ISPF Profile dataset.
We're going in circles. The OP was looking for a solution that would
work
Tony,
A complete Flashcopy of DB2 and a SWAP to the cloned DB2 system is
simple enough. However If you (and so be back where we started) then
shutdown the original DB2 system and restart it once you are done with
the cloned DB2. Just clipped the DASD back and the catalogs are in sync.
Will you
Bruce Black wrote:
CVOL is the old, non-VSAM catalog structure. IBM dropped support as
of 12/31/1999. And I mean dropped, even if you define one it will not
work.
--
If you're unfortunate enough to have one of these, I
Eric,
One SNTP client I downloaded provided the system time and the network
time.
Trying broadcast request
Querying 255.255.255.255
Data received:
Network time: May 22, 2007, 13:32:35.177 UTC
System time: May 22, 2007, 13:32:32.839 UTC
Kevin
On Mon, 21 May 2007 22:41:55 -0400, Robert A. Rosenberg wrote:
At 18:43 -0500 on 05/21/2007, Paul Gilmartin wrote about Re: Why is
there JOB scope for DSN ENQ's anyway?:
There is a simple reason. The ENQs are done before the job is started
so that all of the datasets are available to the steps.
Anyone run across a iebgener (not a iefbr14)
Allocate a file--Nullfile SYSUT1...output SYSUT2 (both DD's) with
BLKSIZE/LRECL of 4096 ,RECFM of FB
Abend with S013-64
Change RECFM to F it works...anyother LRECL/BLKSIZE combination---works???
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Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 1:20 AM
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Subject: Re: Synchronize Time Between Mainframe and Servers?
SNIP
I don't know microwave owen design, but I can imagine a device
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 05/18/2007
at 04:08 PM, Paul Gilmartin [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
If all ENQs now performed with job scope were performed with job step
scope, the deadly embrace would equally well be avoided.
But the data sets would no longer be protected against concurrent
updates.
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 05/18/2007
at 08:06 AM, Ed Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
* QA: Microsoft won't sue over Linux, for now
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/1554966/20890881/63892/2/
See groklaw for one analysis of why it's an empty threat, then
consider the possible legal
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 05/19/2007
at 11:35 AM, Graeme Gibson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
I'm similarly disappointed by some of the people who post from
memory when they could have spent a couple of minutes running a
simple trial with a batch job, TSO command, ISPF function or whatever
and
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 05/20/2007
at 09:33 AM, Lizette Koehler [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Those datasets are related to the GLOBAL zone and not the TLIB or
DLIB.
Some, not all. You really don't want to share, e.g., MTS between
target zones.
So yes they are shared.
Sharing the data sets
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 05/20/2007
at 03:25 PM, Paul Gilmartin [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
How fine a granularity do you wish? Should each data set be given a
distinct symbolic volser for the customer to tailor, with the
possibility of setting some of them equal? Be aware that what seems
to you
On Tue, 22 May 2007 08:15:16 -0400, John Eells wrote:
snip
I am completely naive of indirect cataloguing. What book should
I read?
- The parameters for DEFINE NONVSAM in z/OS DFSMS Access Method
Services for Catalogs:
On Tue, 22 May 2007 07:54:03 -0300, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote:
As far as I know, this job will run without error even if the owner
has ACCESS=NONE to SYS1.WHATEVER. But for nearly three hours other
users will be unable to allocate SYS1.WHATEVER. There ought to be
enforcement of a rule
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article
that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main,alt.folklore.computers as well.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ted MacNEIL) writes:
I started with 3330's.
And, I remember when STK (STC) showed us their first ICEBERG, and the
size of the device was that
I am trying to send all e-mail from the FRAME to a mail server. I am
using XMITIP to do this. I have the e-mail being sent BUT the from field
after leaving the JES spool looks like this:
ERROR parsing sender address:
@CPAC.CSLF.ORG:[EMAIL PROTECTED] : No local-part (user account)
found at
On Tue, 22 May 2007 08:25:56 -0300, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote:
Close. The limits are imposed by the *SAM control blocks, not by the
DASD. A VBS segment must fit within a block that begins with a BDW,
and the block must fit within a buffer. The limits for VBS were
inherited from those for VB.
ending up in a deadly embrace (where two jobs each want the same ENQs
but can not get them).
Actually a deadly embrance (the old fatatl fondle) is when
task 1 holds resource A but needs resource B
task 2 holds resource B but needs resource A
A job could end up in a fatal fondle if it didn't
On Tue, 22 May 2007 09:12:10 -0300, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote:
If all ENQs now performed with job scope were performed with job step
scope, the deadly embrace would equally well be avoided.
But the data sets would no longer be protected against concurrent
updates.
Thank you. I had
Did you have a defrag fail on PRD9LF?
Yes, that dsname indicates that a DSS DEFRAG failed or was cancelled.
Datasets may be at risk because of the failure.
I would first try restarting the DEFRAG and see if it will complete. If
so, it will delete the dataset.
--
Bruce A. Black
Senior
Yes, head of string, 3350-A2 (contains controller circuits, and is the
first in a string of 3350 units) or 3350-A2F same as A2 has fixed as well
as movable heads. Again from the facts folder.
Rick Fochtman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Mon, 21 May 07 15:27:15 EST
On 22 May 2007 06:18:41 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Zelden)
wrote:
Go into SDSF. Type the command KEYS. Change them to whatever you want and
save. New keys will be stored in the users ISPF Profile dataset.
We're going in circles. The OP was looking for a solution that would
work
Listers,
I will probably cross post later to TSO-REXX newsgroup, but thought I would
give this list a chance first.
Somewhere in the last 24 hours something has changed in our ISPF environment.
We are z/OS V1.7
Now we are now getting a clist recursive error when trying to do an SJ command
Paul Gilmartin wrote:
snip
BTW, JCL and job step allocation, contrary to the JCL RM, by experiment
tolerate RECFM=VBS,LRECL=32761. Dynalloc, however, reports it as an
invalid value for LRECL. Conway's law, again? I did not test an OPEN.
-- gil
OPEN will accept this. If you hard code the
I don't remember any 3350 problems as this device type was my first
performance charge with doing internal pathing/volume placement based on
performance metrics at timeshare NVIP back in the early 80's. I do however
remember the 3350 to 3380 migration project which turned ugly when we were
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article
that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main,alt.folklore.computers as well.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I don't remember any 3350 problems as this device type was my first
performance charge with doing internal pathing/volume placement
Lizette,
Does it happens only to you or to every TSO users ?
Atenciosamente / Regards / Saludos
Banco Bradesco S/A
4254/DPCD Alphaville
Engenharia de Software - Sistemas Operacionais Mainframes
Ituriel do Nascimento Neto
Tel: 55 11 4197-2021 Fax: 55 11 4197-2814
-Mensagem
This happens for most TSO IDs using SDSF with any ISPF function (SJ, SE )
The library SYS1.ISP.SISPCLIB is shared across all environments and we only
have 3 logon procs. I can make it fail consistantly on one system. On another
I cannot make it fail for the same ID.
I have tried copying the
-Original Message-
From: Stocker, Herman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 7:57 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: HLASM calling E/Cobol Response time problem
Snipped
We added PREINIT to the JCL this brought the checkpoint time down to 5
minutes.
What does
IBM Ported Tools for z/OS: PHP for z/OS Feature V1.1.2
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06873742
--
John McKown
Senior Systems Programmer
HealthMarkets
Keeping the Promise of Affordable Coverage
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Information Technology
The
You may also find that IT Security and Audit personnel have another opinion
about the importance of
maintaining secure SAS information, if it involves Accounting/Chargeback or
Cost Allocation data for
your enterprise entities. And if you are forced down this path, it's important
that everyone
Tom Schmidt wrote:
On Mon, 21 May 2007 14:25:20 -0500, Eric Bielefeld wrote:
Maybe Tom should sue Microsoft. They obviously took his name, which was
there long before Vista.
They have an army of lawyers and he'd have to buy one (or more). They
have to pay their lawyers whether
Bob wrote:
Hi,
We are planning on replacing some of our *very* old operator's
consoles (IBM 3471's) with something a bit newer and I am trying to
identify products that might work for us. We support a *lot* of
separate MVS VM images (50 or more) and have switched to Visara
boxes to replace
Schiradin,Roland HG-Dir itb-db/dc wrote:
SHOWuOS use three methods to get the info.
1. Like IPLINFO does (unauth)
2. SYSEVENT QVS (auth)
3. SYSEVENT REQLPDAT (auth)
SYSEVENT QVS is an unauthorized interface.
--
Edward E Jaffe
Phoenix Software International, Inc
5200 W Century Blvd, Suite
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
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Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 12:52 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: Vista Tn3270 (was: Re: calling ISPLINK from COBOL)
Tom Schmidt wrote:
On Mon, 21 May 2007 14:25:20 -0500,
On Sat, 19 May 2007 20:59:40 -0500, Paul Gilmartin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Sat, 19 May 2007 20:52:05 -0300, Clark Morris wrote:
... If the ENQ is exclusive for the first step and
shared for the second, it will be changed by the initiator/terminator
between steps.
Nope.
On Tue, 22 May 2007 10:51:31 -0700, Edward Jaffe wrote:
Tom Schmidt wrote:
On Mon, 21 May 2007 14:25:20 -0500, Eric Bielefeld wrote:
Maybe Tom should sue Microsoft. They obviously took his name, which
was
there long before Vista.
They have an army of lawyers and he'd have to buy one (or
Let's see if I can reply to everyone at once:
Ken – thanks for the info. However, we are trying to move to some sort
of newer technology. We have lots of the old stuff. In particular,
we want the multiple-sessions-on-one-display capability.
Ed/Glenn – So far, the Visara UTC-L is the one box
Thanks so much everyone - it's working:
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Process Section
If you have an ID it does not fail on, you might start by looking at
what is different: DSN concatenation sequences in each DD name, edit
options (TSO PROFILE command), edit profiles, etc.
You could add CONTROL LIST CONLIST SYMLIST near the top of your copy
of the CLIST so you can watch what is
On 22 May 2007 04:57:02 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote:
G'day list,
We are having a response problem with an E/Cobol module that has just being
converted from COBII. It is called from an HLASM module not using LE.
That is the problem. Change the Assembler caller to LE conforming
Bob wrote:
7.One of our options is to stay just the way we are. However, after
15-20 years the keyboards and monitors on IBM 3471's start to get a
little worn out so hopefully we will find a good alternative for the
future.
We use the Visara coax-attached consoles and they seem to do the
All set on this. Found code to change in XMITIP. Thanks all.
Bob Pelletier
Connecticut Student Loan Foundation
Rocky Hill, Ct.
Thanks so much everyone - it's working:
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In a message dated 5/22/2007 1:54:11 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
persons actual e-mail address? In this case it would
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
XMITP has a REPLYTO that I think will serve your purpose. So even though it
comes from the MF the actionable item is
Paul Gilmartin wrote:
On Tue, 22 May 2007 08:15:16 -0400, John Eells wrote:
snip
I am completely naive of indirect cataloguing. What book should
I read?
- The parameters for DEFINE NONVSAM in z/OS DFSMS Access Method
Services for Catalogs:
Barry,
I have gone as far as copying the Logon Proc (It is the same on all systems)
and editing it down to just the ISPF and SDSF libraries (SYS1.ISP.SISP and
SYS1.ISF.SISF) and it still fails.
I had copied the IBM clist to a new library and placed it at the top of
SYSPROC. That
On Tue, 22 May 2007 16:10:14 -0400, John Eells [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
- From a software packaging standpoint, if your software lives on
the sysres target volume set you should provide support for
indirect cataloging using system symbols. People can define
system symbols based on the value of
In a message dated 5/22/2007 2:14:40 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
nicely. But, we run an almost completely lights-out shop so they don't
get a lot of use. I suggest you try to replace just one console and see
how your operators like it. They're not expensive.
On Tue, 22 May 2007 13:17:16 -0500, Scott Fagen wrote:
... If the ENQ is exclusive for the first step and
shared for the second, it will be changed by the initiator/terminator
between steps.
Nope.
Wishful thinking.
But why not?
ENQ RET=CHNG only supports 'upgrade' from SHR
There is an example of coding AMBLIST for HFS modules in
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1OW57668
which should report these values, IIRC.
Also see http://members.tripod.com/billlalonde/oehist.htm
Bill
M. Castelein wrote:
For a load module residing in a PDS or a program object
The JCL fragment:
//STEP EXEC PGM=IEFBR14
//*
//SYSUT1DD DSN=user.FOO.BAR.SMPLOG,DISP=(MOD,KEEP),
// VOL=SER=TSO026,
//UNIT=SYSALLDA
where 'user.FOO.BAR.SMPLOG' does not pre-exist on the volume
produces allocation messages:
IEF236I ALLOC. FOR MODKEEP
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on
05/21/2007
at 02:02 PM, William Donzelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Will a 3880 with proper microcode control 3350s?
Yes, if it's the right model.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html
Mark Zelden wrote:
On Tue, 22 May 2007 16:10:14 -0400, John Eells [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
- From a software packaging standpoint, if your software lives on
the sysres target volume set you should provide support for
indirect cataloging using system symbols. People can define
system symbols
the MVS catalog has more than the one DB2 Subsystem in it though, I
would have to just pull in the entries for that Subsystem. Is that even
possible?
Thanks
Tony
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For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access
The DB2 system will be started on the same Lpar (after the other one is shut
down). I do not believe we can just shut the 'clone' DB2 and restart the
original one as the MVS catalog might be out of sync if any of the following
have happened:
1. Tablespaces have gone multi-volume
2. Tablespaces
On Tue, 22 May 2007 16:37:14 -0500, Paul Gilmartin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Tue, 22 May 2007 13:17:16 -0500, Scott Fagen wrote:
... If the ENQ is exclusive for the first step and
shared for the second, it will be changed by the initiator/terminator
between steps.
Nope.
At 13:17 -0500 on 05/22/2007, Scott Fagen wrote about Re: Why is
there JOB scope for DSN ENQ's anyway?:
On Sat, 19 May 2007 20:59:40 -0500, Paul Gilmartin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Sat, 19 May 2007 20:52:05 -0300, Clark Morris wrote:
... If the ENQ is exclusive for the
At 21:48 -0500 on 05/22/2007, Scott Fagen wrote about Re: Why is
there JOB scope for DSN ENQ's anyway?:
Why doesn't initiator/terminator downgrade the ENQ from EXC to SHR when the
job has only DISP=SHR interest in the dataset for any of the remaining job
steps. The answer clearly
Paul
You got my attention with the subject line, DISP=(MOD,DELETE), since I used
to encourage students to consider using this trick in order to immunise
their JCL against irritating errors when they had usually started task
procedures relating to networking products and they didn't care
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