"Jim Mulder" wrote in message
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> > Dang, you hit it. In parmlib it's set to 5120M, but in the lpar it's
at
> > 2048M, which is incorrect.
> >
> > Thanks for your assistance.
> >
> > Mark Jacobs
> >
> > On 07/16/12 08:10, Vernooij, CP - SPLXM wrote:
> > > Did you check the value of RSU=
Shmuel Metz asks:
>Are you still using Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) or something more
>modern, e.g., Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA)?
Of course I use the latter, but a few points:
1. Wi-fi encryption only handles the hop between your wireless device and
the wireless router/access point. Beyond tha
Paul Gilmartin writes:
>It's not a matter of security; rather that many IT departments nowadays
>have a standard of 8-character userids. IBM is a tail that can no longer
>wag that dog; the CIO can cite refusal to comply with corporate standards
>as one more strike against z/OS in a purchase decisi
On 17/07/2012 11:35 AM, Charles Mills wrote:
David, thanks, will try again tomorrow.
Does it perhaps want to factor differently? Perhaps something more like
(*extern "OS" entryPoint)(const char *);
or something? Otherwise aren't you saying that the pointer itself is extern?
What you need is
I saw on the 10 o'clock news that MS is offering Cloud based Office 2013
for trial. Not brave enough to try it on my PC(old). I searched a little but
couldn't find a MS link, but found this.
_http://msoffice2013.com/tag/office-15/_
(http://msoffice2013.com/tag/office-15/)
Don't know if
Victor,
Try a 'google rexx iggcsi' , there several samples and one of the fields was
tape datasets
Scott ford
www.identityforge.com
On Jul 16, 2012, at 9:43 PM, Victor Zhang wrote:
> For a non-vsam dataset, how can I determine if it is a dasd dataset or a tape
> dataset? What's the criteria
David, thanks, will try again tomorrow.
Does it perhaps want to factor differently? Perhaps something more like
(*extern "OS" entryPoint)(const char *);
or something? Otherwise aren't you saying that the pointer itself is extern?
Don't let me confuse the issue -- it is not CSRSI that I am call
extern "OS" (*entryPoint)(const char *) is the correct declaration for C++.
I have called OS linkage functions from the CVT in C++ without problems.
Where is the header file for CSRSI?
Are you XPLINK?
On 17/07/2012 10:10 AM, Charles Mills wrote:
Another way of saying what I am trying to do
Another way of saying what I am trying to do is what you do if you are
calling from C++ any MVS callable service or something like that using the
pointer somewhere off of the CVT.
Looking at the header file for CSRSI it looks like perhaps you can't do it
from C++.
Charles
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For a non-vsam dataset, how can I determine if it is a dasd dataset or a tape
dataset? What's the criteria to check if a dataset reside on tape?
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1. If I code the declaration as
extern "C" void (*entryPoint)(const SMFrecd *);
(did not try "OS" but it would have the same problem I think) then that is
the declaration of an external function, not the definition of a pointer,
right? In any event I get unresolved extern's on entryPoint at link
On Mon, 16 Jul 2012 13:31:07 -0400, zMan wrote:
>On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 12:00 PM, John Gilmore wrote:
>
>> Passwords or userids that may be at most 8 characters in length are
>> unacceptable today.
>
>Passwords, yes; userids, meh -- I don't consider a userid to be a secure
>data point.
>
It's no
Why the __cdecl instead of extern OS?
On 17/07/2012, at 8:34 AM, Charles Mills wrote:
> Wow! Fast answer, and looked very promising, but no change in behavior.
>
> Added DLL(CBA) to my options.
>
> Charles
>
> -Original Message-
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Oh boy. One more thing to look at.
Thanks, Lizette.
Charles
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Of Lizette Koehler
Sent: Monday, July 16, 2012 5:22 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: Relationship of C signals to z
Wow! Fast answer, and looked very promising, but no change in behavior.
Added DLL(CBA) to my options.
Charles
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Behalf Of David Crayford
Sent: Monday, July 16, 2012 5:19 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.
Charles,
You migh want to look at USER HANDLE Conditions in LE. IIRC - IBM provided a
way for you to create your own handle condition.
Lizette
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>From: Charles Mills
>Sent: Jul 16, 2012 5:18 PM
>To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
>Subject: Re: Relationship of C signals to
I suggest investigating the CALLBACKANY compiler option.
On 17/07/2012, at 8:13 AM, Charles Mills wrote:
> Does anyone know the answer to this?
>
> I have an assembler function whose address I know at run-time in C++. I
> define and store it like this
>
> void __cdecl (*entryPoint)(const char
In case anyone cares, the answer seems to be that you cannot trap an
operator CANCEL using signals. The trick is searching on Sx22. Here is what
the LE P/G has to say:
When TRAP(ON,SPIE) is in effect, Language Environment is notified of abends
and program interrupts. Language semantics, C/C++ sign
Does anyone know the answer to this?
I have an assembler function whose address I know at run-time in C++. I
define and store it like this
void __cdecl (*entryPoint)(const char *);
entryPoint = (void (__cdecl *)(const char *))(myVoidStar);
printf("entryPoint is %p\n", entryPoint);
Printf prints
Yep,
One big concern I see in this at this point is if they shut the LPARs down and
the SE isn't talking to the CEC, how do they bring them back up? Hopefully it
is something simple like a bad power supply on one of the 2 laptops and they
can either fairly quickly fix it or use the alternate.
zedgarhoo...@gmail.com (zMan) writes:
> I've heard of folks who've fallen for this. What I can't imagine is the
> confluence of someone who I know well enough to blindly send money to AND
> think I'd be high enough on their list of folks to email AND wouldn't know
> that they were overseas already
Yep. Could be a bad power supply in Laptop, bad cable between Laptop and
z900, hard drive failure. No indication that there's anything wrong with z900
at all(as of yet)..
In a message dated 7/16/2012 3:53:24 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
sy...@hotmail.com writes:
Service Elements are the
On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 4:15 PM, John Gilmore wrote:
> We have begun to see fallout. Fortunately, it's amateurish so far.
>
> This moring my wife received an email, a long litany of woe and
> injuries, allegedly from an old friend and college classmate. She
> wanted us to send money to her in
As Roger mentioned, AFP printers create barcodes from AFP commands. The
commands are created by a Page Definition. The COBOL application simply writes
the data to be encoded at a fixed position in the data. For example, in COBOL
you might write a line containing the value for the barcode:
01 Li
We have begun to see fallout. Fortunately, it's amateurish so far.
This moring my wife received an email, a long litany of woe and
injuries, allegedly from an old friend and college classmate. She
wanted us to send money to her in Spain.
Called, it turned out that she was in good health at hom
You mandate any policy you want, try enforcing password rules
Scott ford
www.identityforge.com
On Jul 16, 2012, at 1:39 PM, "Finch, Steve (ES - Mainframe)"
wrote:
> Perhaps 8 character passwords should be replaced with 255 characters
> passphases (password phases) ?
>
> Steve Finch
>
>
Victor,
Yes, you can retrieve a tape dataset's volser(s) using IGGCSI. I am not
positive that I know what you mean by the type of the tape dataset. If it
is the entry type, that would be NON-VSAM.
A good place to start is the provided samples. I started with IGGCSIRX,
the REXX one. It lists the
Forgot to mention that the Service Elements are the laptop computers inside the
covers of the z900.
Cliff McNeill
> Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2012 14:07:50 -0500
> From: sy...@hotmail.com
> Subject: Re: Urgent help needed - Message ISN000E
> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
>
> > > "ISN000E The service pr
> > "ISN000E The service processor has failed. Some critical system
> > functions are inoperative.
>
> "Service Processor" is also known as the "SE" or "Support Element".
> Further investigation would need to be done by your hardware support
> team.
Have you tried to reboot the support Elemen
Explanation: The Service Processor has malfunctioned and MVS cannot
communicate with it. Certain MVS functions are inoperative, including CONFIG,
some D M, and some operator-communication facilities. Hardware error logging
is also inoperative.
MVS might remain functional for an indeterminat
this is exactly why I did not respond
another shop "getting off MF" but in mean time stopped paying for HW SW
support etc
I guess its time and materials
From: Mark Jacobs
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU,
Date: 07/16/2012 02:46 PM
Subject:Re: Urgent help needed - Message ISN
I assume you have been here...
http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/IEA2M9C0/SPTM013374
Btw z/os 1.6 isn't really supported unless you have special support
contact..hardware would have to be looked at, what goes logrec show ?
Scott ford
www.identityforge.com
On Jul 16, 20
There are companies out there that sell and service used mainframes.
If you can't get the part replaced, then a used mainframe could be
purchased. With a new minimum z114 starting at $75,000, z9 or z10
should be a bit cheaper.
On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 1:42 PM, peter novack wrote:
> OK, here's th
IBM will come out and perform service for time and the cost of parts even
without a service contract. You have two choices: 1) Pay IBM or 2) accelerate
your migration you that you're off the z900 before it totally craps out. This
may sound harsh but those are your choices.
Bob Shannon
> I work as a consultant in a small installation in Eastern Europe.
> Their main business activity runs on a couple of Z900 machines (z/OS
1.6).
> One is for production and the other for development.
>
> Like many organizations, they've been trying to get rid of the
> Mainframe for years now
Hello SHARE and EWCP members -
The SHARE conference in Anaheim, CA is approaching quickly. There are many
new sessions with a lot of good information
waiting to be shared. It will be held at the Marriott Hotel, August 5th
through August 10th, 2012.
The Enterprise Wide Capacity and Perfo
What does the HMC hardware log shows?
ITschak
On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 9:42 PM, peter novack wrote:
> OK, here's the story so far:
> We've tried IPLing a few times, and later performed a power-on-reset, but
> still got the message a few hours later.
> Unfortunately, they do not have official I
Sounds like their management has a problem then.
Mark Jacobs
On 07/16/12 14:42, peter novack wrote:
OK, here's the story so far:
We've tried IPLing a few times, and later performed a power-on-reset, but
still got the message a few hours later.
Unfortunately, they do not have official IBM s
OK, here's the story so far:
We've tried IPLing a few times, and later performed a power-on-reset, but
still got the message a few hours later.
Unfortunately, they do not have official IBM support (assuming they would even
support such old machines), and I don't think that's about to change, gi
The 32 kib bound has two rationales: 1) It is enough/overkill for
passwords used by people and 2) larger values are problematic, produce
control-block overflows, in some contexts.
The first of these two is the more important. The practice of
Increasing the supported length of something from 8 to
I realize it's not really new. I was making a small poke at the concept in
general. As a COBOL programmer its not something I generally have to concern
myself with.
>
> From: Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
>To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
>Sent: Saturday, July 14, 2
> Dang, you hit it. In parmlib it's set to 5120M, but in the lpar it's at
> 2048M, which is incorrect.
>
> Thanks for your assistance.
>
> Mark Jacobs
>
> On 07/16/12 08:10, Vernooij, CP - SPLXM wrote:
> > Did you check the value of RSU= in IEASYSxx?
> >
> > Kees.
> >
> > "Mark Jacobs" wrote i
Perhaps 8 character passwords should be replaced with 255 characters passphases
(password phases) ?
Steve Finch
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf
Of Paul Gilmartin
Sent: Monday, July 16, 2012 1:14 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.
On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 12:00 PM, John Gilmore wrote:
> The acceptability of length limitations depends upon their values.
>
> Passwords or userids that may be at most 8 characters in length are
> unacceptable today.
>
Passwords, yes; userids, meh -- I don't consider a userid to be a secure
da
On Mon, 16 Jul 2012 12:00:33 -0400, John Gilmore wrote:
>
>Passwords or userids that may be at most 8 characters in length are
>unacceptable today.
>
Is IBM aware of this? And given the prevailing mode, 7 is
significantly worse than 8.
> A limitation to at most 2^15 - 1 = 32767 characters is, i
john_matt...@ea.epson.com (John Mattson) writes:
> Back to basics: My pet peeve(s) (serious security concerns) are:
> 1) sites which do not allow use of the full set of special characters. My
> banks, Google and Facebook do, so it is not that hard. The more
> posibilities for each character,
Lizzette,
Recycle runs when requested regardless of other HSM activity.
If you have a dedicated pool of HSM tapes, don't you want some 'empty' tapes to
cater to request for new tapes?
Thank You,
Dave O'Brien
From: Lizette Koehler [stars...@mindspring.co
In
,
on 07/16/2012
at 03:03 PM, Timothy Sipples said:
>Yahoo! Mail -- the Web version -- *still* does not use HTTPS for
>most communications AFAIK. For example, if you're using a free
>wi-fi hotspot at a coffee shop, and you access Yahoo! Mail via
>their Web interface, practically everythin
Hello,
Is it possible to retrieve a tape dataset's volser via iggcsi? what's the type
of a tape data set?
Regards
Victor
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The acceptability of length limitations depends upon their values.
Passwords or userids that may be at most 8 characters in length are
unacceptable today.
A limitation to at most 2^15 - 1 = 32767 characters is, in my view
at least, unobjectionable. Larger limitations like this one are often
re
Was anything else running in DFHSM when you issued the recycle? I don't
think Recycle will work if PSM/SSM is running
Lizette
>
> Hi Allan,
>
> I issued the command - HSEND RECYCLE ALL EXECUTE PERCENTVALID(0) -
but HSM
> didn't release the tapes. In this LPAR these tapes belong to a
dedica
Back to basics: My pet peeve(s) (serious security concerns) are:
1) sites which do not allow use of the full set of special characters. My
banks, Google and Facebook do, so it is not that hard. The more
posibilities for each character, the more secure the password.
2) sites which limit lengt
Call your IBM Hardware Support ASAP
Rob Scott
Lead Developer
Rocket Software
77 Fourth Avenue . Suite 100 . Waltham . MA 02451-1468 . USA
Tel: +1.781.684.2305
Email: rsc...@rs.com
Web: www.rocketsoftware.com
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSER
Hi all,
I work as a consultant in a small installation in Eastern Europe.
Their main business activity runs on a couple of Z900 machines (z/OS 1.6).
One is for production and the other for development.
Like many organizations, they've been trying to get rid of the Mainframe for
years now, so
Hi all,
I work as a consultant in a small installation in Eastern Europe.
Their main business activity runs on a couple of Z900 machines (z/OS 1.6).
One is for production and the other for development.
Like many organizations, they've been trying to get rid of the Mainframe for
years now, so
Ok ... thank you both .
On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 5:27 PM, Rob Scott wrote:
> The freeware MXI 4.3 is still on the www.cbttape.org site
>
> Note that it has not been updated for over 7 years and is getting evermore
> creaky as z/OS advances onwards (it very nearly broke completely for a
> recent re
The freeware MXI 4.3 is still on the www.cbttape.org site
Note that it has not been updated for over 7 years and is getting evermore
creaky as z/OS advances onwards (it very nearly broke completely for a recent
release of z/OS and was rescued by an IBM PTF).
It does not have support for EAV D
Try something similar to this in ARCCMDxx.
SETSYS TAPEDELETION( /* RETURN OLD TAPES TO */+
BACKUP(SCRATCHTAPE) /* SCRATCH POOL (BACKUP ONLY)*/+
MIGRATION(SCRATCHTAPE)/* SCRATCH POOL (MIGRATION ONLY) */+
DUMP(SCRATCHTAPE) /* S
timothy.sipp...@us.ibm.com (Timothy Sipples) writes:
> Yahoo! Mail -- the Web version -- *still* does not use HTTPS for most
> communications AFAIK. For example, if you're using a free wi-fi hotspot at
> a coffee shop, and you access Yahoo! Mail via their Web interface,
> practically everything exc
It is on the CBT tape.
Regards,
John K
Matan Cohen of the IBM Mainframe Discussion List
wrote on 07/16/2012 09:05:34 AM:
> Hi ,
> does 'MXI' isn't a freeware anymore?
> http://www.rocketsoftware.com/mainstar/products/mxi-g2
> I can't seem to find any link for downloading it .
-
That (G2) is the Cadillac "paid-for" version.
Get the freebie from the CBT site. I believe 4.3 GenLevel 050627 is the latest.
Bob
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf
Of Matan Cohen
Sent: Monday, July 16, 2012 10:06 AM
To: I
> What is your card model? Provide CCIN and/or FC (feature code).
> Not all OSA card can be ICC.
>
> --
> Radoslaw Skorupka
> Lodz, Poland
Bingo. After I hit send, I looked at the PCHID assignments, the one that
doesn't work is OSA Express2 GBe, not ICC capable :(
Silly me, I thought all of
Hi ,
does 'MXI' isn't a freeware anymore?
http://www.rocketsoftware.com/mainstar/products/mxi-g2
I can't seem to find any link for downloading it .
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best regards,
matan cohen
MF System Administrator.
-
Hi Allan,
I issued the command - HSEND RECYCLE ALL EXECUTE PERCENTVALID(0) - but HSM
didn't release the tapes. In this LPAR these tapes belong to a dedicated HSM
pool. Would you hazard a guess as to why the tapes still show when I issue the
LIST TTOC SELECT(BOTH)
020052 3590-1 ML
Yahoo is not a universally free service. For-pay options are available. I use
a couple of them. I don't know what they "owe" their non-paying (ad-supported)
customers... but they had bloody well better agree that they owe _me_ good
service, or they can kiss my annual tribute goodbye.
-Or
W dniu 2012-07-16 15:02, Dana Mitchell pisze:
> We have an OSA Express 2 trying to define it as an OSA-ICC. We
> changed the channel type in HCD to be OSC, defined the OSC control
> unit etc. Activated it and now we see the following:
>
> In the channels work area, it says that it is Reseerved
If you don't have a version of MS Word that supports it, you can load
it using the free OpenOffice / LibreOffice and then "save as" the
older format.
Kirk Wolf
Dovetailed Technologies
http://dovetail.com
On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 5:49 AM, Andrew Rowley
wrote:
> Word 2007 changed to a zipped, XML b
Another alternative that may also be useful for this and other
incompatibilities: Download and install Free Apache OpenOffice Suite
at http://www.openoffice.org/ , or LibreOffice, a 2010 split-off from
OpenOffice (when it was unclear whether OpenOffice development could
continue after Oracle bo
We have an OSA Express 2 trying to define it as an OSA-ICC. We changed the
channel type in HCD to be OSC, defined the OSC control unit etc. Activated it
and now we see the following:
In the channels work area, it says that it is Reseerved - Definition error.
According to Channel Problem Det
HTH.
That's what I like about this list: solutions in minutes/hours i.s.o.
days/weeks/months.
Kees.
"Mark Jacobs" wrote in message
news:<50040681.2000...@custserv.com>...
> Dang, you hit it. In parmlib it's set to 5120M, but in the lpar it's
at
> 2048M, which is incorrect.
>
> Thanks for your
> For a while, but I'm not sure that the PCHIPID's will be the same.
AFAIK, PCHIDs belonging to different models are different. For you convenience,
you can use the IBM Mapping Tool in order to keep CHIDs ("P" left out
purposely)
identical for both your z10 and z114. It makes life easier.
Wal
Dang, you hit it. In parmlib it's set to 5120M, but in the lpar it's at
2048M, which is incorrect.
Thanks for your assistance.
Mark Jacobs
On 07/16/12 08:10, Vernooij, CP - SPLXM wrote:
Did you check the value of RSU= in IEASYSxx?
Kees.
"Mark Jacobs" wrote in message
news:<5003fbd2.6000...
Did you check the value of RSU= in IEASYSxx?
Kees.
"Mark Jacobs" wrote in message
news:<5003fbd2.6000...@custserv.com>...
> We swapped out a z10 to a z196 processor last weekend and on one of
the
> lpars we're seeing something that I don't understand.
>
> The lpar in question has been defined
For a while, but I'm not sure that the PCHIPID's will be the same.
Gadi
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Of Walter Marguccio
Sent: Monday, July 16, 2012 2:48 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: IODF for new comput
> From: גדי בן אבי
> Subject: Re: IODF for new computer
> Once I created the IODF, I can create input to IOCP that can be read by the
> new computer.
I thought you could use your existing IODF, used by your existing z10,
to create an IOCP input file. You then give the latter to the stand-alon
We swapped out a z10 to a z196 processor last weekend and on one of the
lpars we're seeing something that I don't understand.
The lpar in question has been defined with 6GB memory with 2GB in
reserve, same as it was on the old z10. But when we IPL the zOS 1.12
image on the new processor we're
W dniu 2012-07-16 11:59, גדי בן אבי pisze:
> Hi,
>
> We just ordered a new z114 that will replace our z10BC.
>
> I have to create an IODF for the new computer.
> All required maintenance has been applied.
>
> Is there a way to do this without redefining all of the current definitions?
Yes.
Ass
Once I created the IODF, I can create input to IOCP that can be read by the new
computer.
Gadi
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf
Of Walter Marguccio
Sent: Monday, July 16, 2012 1:46 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject:
Word 2007 changed to a zipped, XML based file format (.docx).
There is an addin to older varions of Word to read 2007 files:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word-help/open-a-word-2007-document-in-an-earlier-version-of-word-HA010044473.aspx
Alternatively, the sender might be able to use "save a
> From: גדי בן אבי
> Subject: IODF for new computer
> We just ordered a new z114 that will replace our z10BC.
> I have to create an IODF for the new computer.
Gadi,
are you sure you mean IODF and not IOCDS ?
One of the first thing you need to do when you get a new HW is to feed him with
your I
Hi,
We just ordered a new z114 that will replace our z10BC.
I have to create an IODF for the new computer.
All required maintenance has been applied.
Is there a way to do this without redefining all of the current definitions?
Thanks
Gadi
לשימת לבך, בהתאם לנהל
I do trust the sender and apparently they cannot (easily?) send me it as a
PDF.
Neither Word2002(XP) nor Wordpad properly open it.
I unzipped it and tried sending the XMLs to IE and Firefox and they didn't do
anything.
Any ideas?
--
Binyamin Dissen
http://www.dissensoftware.com
Director, Dis
Yahoo! Mail -- the Web version -- *still* does not use HTTPS for most
communications AFAIK. For example, if you're using a free wi-fi hotspot at
a coffee shop, and you access Yahoo! Mail via their Web interface,
practically everything except your login credentials flows in the clear. A
fairly unsop
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