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January 2008
Generally speaking, how well prepared is your IT department for a disaster?
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December 2007
What is the requirements-gathering process like in your shop? (choose all that apply)
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November 2007
Where does your IT department stand on open source? (choose all that apply)
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October 2007
Search engine spokespeople are quick to express concern for users’ privacy, but the reality is that search engines typically store a lot of information, and not all of it is anonymous. Does concern about privacy affect your search activity?
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September 2007
Which new functions in the IBM Systems Info Center (ibm.com/systems/infocenter) are you most excited about? (Choose all that apply.)
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August 2007
Given an Internet connection's sporadic nature, what happens when you use it for VoIP — a service that requires guaranteed bandwidth and guaranteed uptime? Have you tried VoIP over the Internet, and if so, what has been your experience with it?
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July 2007
System iNEWS launched in 1982. Where were you when this momentous birth occurred?
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June 2007
What's hot for your shop? (choose all that apply)
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May 2007
Which of the Toronto Lab's "main themes" for satisfying your WDSc requirements is most important to you?
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April 2007
System iNEWS's 25-year history includes 18 years of April Fools humor. Enjoy our sampler of drollery from the vaults, then vote on which graphic from that sampler is your favorite.
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March 2007
Help us get a sense of how old the average System i pro is and whether retirement or a new career is in the near future for you. Are you
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February 2007
When will your organization upgrade to Windows Vista?
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January 2007
Ajax breaks the mold of the page-bound, sluggish web look-and-feel, letting you deliver a user experience that matches the quality of many deskbound applications. Has your shop begun using the Ajax methodology in its development efforts?
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January 2007
The holiday season is upon us. What better time to think about social gatherings — virtual ones in this case! What's your favorite social networking website?
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November 2006
What is your ONE biggest obstacle to modernizing your shop’s applications?
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October 2006
Does your organization currently use an IP telephony (IPT) solution?
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September 2006
Have you ever had to justify your AS/400, iSeries, or System i to upper management?
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August 2006
Do you routinely test your code to help you discover errors prior to production? If so, which method(s) do you use? (See "Quality Time" for descriptions of each type of testing.)
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July 2006
Where do you stand when it comes to a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) in your organization? Please choose which statement fits you best.
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June 2006
June is moving along, and summer is really starting to kick in — here in the northern hemisphere, anyway! So let's lighten up along with the weather and have a little fun with our poll. What is your favorite movie about computer security?
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June 2006
Modern applications encourage the move from vertical monolithic programmer to horizontal composite programmer. For new development, where does your shop fit?
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May 2006
What's your favorite name for your favorite business computer?
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April 2006
Does IBM need to significantly improve its iSeries-related technical, reference, and tutorial content on the Web?
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March 2006
Just as diversity makes natural systems more robust, diversity in application development techniques can improve your IT systems. What's in your development toolkit?
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February 2006
Does your organization currently outsource iSeries-related services?
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January 2006
After reading "Backup Horror Stories," tell us, do you have a backup horror story of your own? (To share your story, e-mail it to us. You can remain anonymous.)
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December 2005
How do your security efforts stack up these days? (choose all that apply)
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November 2005
RPG IV is making a painful but inexorable shift to free-format syntax. What's your excuse for not making the move to be /Free?
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October 2005
How do you use Linux in your organization?
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September 2005
iSeriesNetwork.com launched in 1995 as NEWS400.com. Where were you when this momentous birth took place?
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August 2005
It's summertime (in the northern hemisphere, anyway!), so let's divert from our usual tech poll. If you could be a Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith character, which one of the following would you choose?
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July 2005
By failing to market the platform, IBM has turned "iSeries marketing" into an oxymoron. However, this situation might be changing at last. Will a genuine marketing effort by IBM make a difference to the iSeries' future?
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June 2005
How do you feel about critiques of your applications?
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May 2005
What is your blogging experience? (choose all that apply)
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April 2005
What do you use your AS/400/iSeries/i5 for? (choose all that apply)
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March 2005
What's your assessment of Microsoft's Midrange Alliance Program (MAP)?
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February 2005
Do the programmers in your shop review each other's code?
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January 2005
Are you using WDSc?
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December 2004
How would you describe your portal efforts?
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November 2004
With the release of Microsoft's HIS 2004, we're finally seeing some synergy between iSeries and Windows. Why do you think there hasn’t been more conceptual borrowing between platforms than we've seen so far? [Choose what you feel is the main reason]
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October 2004
Technology is only one service that programmers, administrators, and tech managers offer, so their department name should go beyond technology and instead reflect the services they provide. Is your department known as “IT,” “IS,” or something else?
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September 2004
My company is considering or already using offshore resources for the following reason(s) [choose all that apply]:
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August 2004
Will Workplace 2.0 go the way of AD/Cycle, OS/2, and SAA, or is it the Microsoft Office killer that IBM wants us to think it is?
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July 2004
Are you having trouble convincing your company to allocate the resources necessary to secure its data and comply with recently enacted laws such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, the California Privacy Act, and HIPAA?
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June 2004
With the just-announced i5's prices averaging 40% less than the Q1, pre-price–adjusted cost of comparable current iSeries systems — and with some new OS enhancements being offered only on the i5 — how likely is your shop to buy an i5?
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May 2004
Are you Web facing any of your applications?
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April 2004
What kind of encryption do you employ on your wireless LAN?
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March 2004
Have you developed a J2EE application on the iSeries?
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February 2004
Has your company taken measures to implement a data-protection plan? Choose all that apply:
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January 2004
Are you using free-format RPG?
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December 2003
Have you used, or are you planning to use, iSeries technologies to consolidate servers?
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November 2003
What is the likelihood that you'll pursue Java certification(s)?
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October 2003
How is your iSeries development team using WebSphere Development Studio Client (WDSc) for iSeries?
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September 2003
Now that IBM has delivered a real strategy & products to back it up (i.e., affordable hardware for WebSphere, WebSphere Express V5, WebFacing, & iAW), does your iSeries shop feel that the time is right to embrace app modernization & browser clients.
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August 2003
Most of our legacy code is:
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July 2003
For iSeries-related positions, what's the hiring situation at your company?
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June 2003
What kinds of VPN products do you currently use?
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May 2003
How are you currently using SQL?
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April 2003
What's your take on grid computing?
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March 2003
What tools do you use to edit iSeries programs written in RPG, Cobol, or CL?
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March 2003
Storage Solutions Group, marketer of FAST400, says the interactive governor-busting tool can be used to get maximum 5250 capabilities out of a Standard Edition iSeries. Would you ever use the tool?
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February 2003
How are you currently using LPAR on your iSeries?
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January 2003
If your company uses high availability (HA) or disaster recovery (DR) solutions, which of these vendors or solutions do you use?
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December 2002
Just for fun: Which of these New Year's predictions would you most love to see happen?
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November 2002
If you do Web development on your AS/400 or iSeries, which of the following languages do you use (choose all that apply)?
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October 2002
With one OS, one chip family, and one I/O architecture, the iSeries works as a small business server and as an enterprise-wide, partitioned, clustered monster. Is this amazing scalability sustainable (choose the one answer you feel is most apt)?
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September 2002
If you're an AS/400-iSeries programmer who's been laid off recently, what was the reason?
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August 2002
What do you think of the new Enterprise Identity Mapping (EIM) feature in V5R2?
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July 2002
iSeries NEWS magazine is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year! What do you think is the most significant IBM midrange product release of the last 20 years?
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July 2002
Twenty years have gone by since iSeries NEWS magazine published its first issue, as NEWS/34! How long have you been an IBM midrange professional?
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June 2002
What do you think of the lack of low-end and midrange iSeries models with the Power4 Regatta announcement?
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May 2002
What do you think of the way IBM has structured its interactive pricing on the newer iSeries machines?
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April 2002
Have you used a browser client to put a new face on existing 5250-based applications?
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March 2002
Do you do content management?
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February 2002
Have you taken steps to reduce your shop’s authentication miasma?
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January 2002
For your RPG development, do you intend to use free-format RPG?
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December 2001
Have you looked into running Linux on your AS/400/iSeries?
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November 2001
Does your company review and update its disaster recovery plan regularly?
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October 2001
Are iSeries vendors too slow to adopt new languages in their products?
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September 2001
Which technology do you use/intend to use for Web-enabling legacy applications? (Choose all that apply)
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August 2001
What security do you use for file exchange over the Internet with trusted parties, such as branch offices, vendors, and business partners?
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July 2001
What OpsNav facilities do you use most?
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June 2001
Which runtime environments are you now or will you be using? (check all that apply)
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May 2001
V5 is almost here. What version of OS/400 are you running?
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April 2001
What’s your client of choice for business apps?
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March 2001
What do you use your AS/400 or iSeries server for?
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February 2001
What is your top request from Buell Duncan's customer wish list?
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February 2001
What is the future of OS/400? In five years, OS/400…
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January 2001
DDS vs. SQL: Which do you use?
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November 2000
Which enhancement to RPG IV would you most like to see in V5?
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October 2000
What role does Windows NT/2000 play at your site?
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September 2000
Is your company using an AS/400 for e-business?
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August 2000
What type of TN5250 product would you prefer to access your AS/400?
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July 2000
What is your principal editor for RPG application development?
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June 2000
Would you buy a ThinkPad/400 (if priced under $5000)?
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May 2000
Do you have a designated AS/400 database specialist?
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April 2000
How frustrating and time-consuming are Client Access problems in your AS/400 shop?
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March 2000
How will IBM's Application Framework for e-Business affect your development?
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February 2000
What have you done to modernize your RPG apps?
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January 2000
Y2K: How bad was it for database integrity or your display and reporting applications (e.g., the application programs corrupted existing data or added new data with bad dates, or the applications ran but the data appeared incorrectly)?
Y2K: How bad was it for program operation (e.g., your programs failed with overflow errors, the OS wouldn’t interpret the new year as "2000," etc.)?
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December 1999
Is your company considering replacing your AS/400 with another platform?
If so what type of server consolidation are you interested in?
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November 1999
Which AS/400 demographic profile fits you? (Can you hum along to a tune by at least one of the groups listed?)
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October 1999
Are you considering using an AS/400 for server consolidation?
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September 1999
For AS/400 business programming which language is the better long-term choice?
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August 1999
What does the “Magic Box” ad campaign say about IBM and its servers?
How do the strengths of the AS/400 come through in these ads?
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July 1999
Does your shop incorporate some version of Linux among your supported platforms?
Should IBM put Linux on the AS/400?
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June 1999
Has your company implemented an ERP package?
If you purchased an ERP package, how long did it take to get up and running?
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May 1999
What do you think of the quality of IBM's customer service?
On which areas should IBM focus improvements?
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April 1999
What annoys you most about IBM's documentation?
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March 1999
What is your Web server platform?
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February 1999
Is your company using an AS/400 for e-commerce? (Check all that apply.)
What are your primary methods of exchanging files over the Internet? (Check all that apply.)
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January 1999
What is your network operating system?
What are your primary LAN and communications technologies?
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December 1998
Which of Roger Pence's suggested New Year's resolutions would you most love to see happen?
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November 1998
How do you secure your network?
Do you permit remote access?
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October 1998
What language are you using now for new AS/400 development?
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September 1998
For AS/400 business programming which language is the better long-term choice?
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August 1998
How well do mainstream IT publications cover the AS/400? Mainstream IT publications...
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July 1998
What are your thin client plans?
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June 1998
How important is programming style to your shop?
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May 1998
Where do you stand on Domino?
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April 1998
What do you see as the future of the AS/400? In five years, the AS/400:
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March 1998
How far along is your Year 2000 conversion project?
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February 1998
Does your job provide continual training, self-improvement opportunities, and professional challenges?
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January 1998
Will security concerns affect your use of radio frequency technologies?
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December 1997 - Is your company ready for e-business?
49.09% of our respondents said YES.
November 1997 - Do you think IBM's current e-business ad campaign is effective?
37.27% of our respondents said YES.
October 1997 - Have you started learning Java?
42.03% of our respondents said YES.
September 1997 - Are you looking at PC LAN/NT technology to replace your 3X/400 system?
17.68% of our respondents said YES.
August 1997 - Will the San Francisco project change the way you do application development?
49.15% of our respondents said YES.
July 1997 - Do you think IT professionals should be certified?
67.59% of our respondents said YES.
June 1997 - Will Project Lightning finally unite the AS/400 and the PC with easy-to-build, efficient, Windows-based access to AS/400 databases and other AS/400 resources?
58.23% of our respondents said YES.
May 1997 - Do you currently run or plan to run Lotus on the AS/400?
40.95% of our respondents said YES.
April 1997 - Does your job require you to have advanced green-screen skills (e.g., RPG IV)?
61.69% of our respondents said YES.
March 1997 - Does your job require you to have PC programming skills (e.g., VB)?
43.83% of our respondents said YES.
February 1997 - The AS/400 and Windows NT: Partners or Rivals?
60.81% of our respondents said PARTNERS.
January 1997 - Have you moved to RISC yet?
58.99% of our respondents said YES.
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