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To enable username/password authentication on the queue manager, the changes below need to be made to the queue manager configuration.
NOTE: The CHLAUTH(DISABLED) command below is required to disable the IP address filtering on CLIENT channels that MQ has enabled by default. Disabling CHLAUTH does not disable username/password checks. I suspect this may the cause of your issues.
The commands below are MQ 'runmqsc' commands that need to be executed by an MQ privileged user, like the 'mqm' user.
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