Re: Calc MD5 checksum for file?

[Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Matt

Where in a typical business application would you use hashing like this? 
RPG is a business language, not a general-purpose one. I would be very 
surprised if there WERE such a function in RPG.

And because the system has all the hashing APIs we need, hey, just put a 
prototyped call to it into wherever you need it.

I know that I would rather IBM spent its resources elsewhere than to put 
a hash function into RPG.

Cheers
Vern

On 3/15/2016 2:20 PM, Matt Olson wrote:
> Strange that hashing functions aren't built into RPG. MD5 (and a ton of other hashing functions) is built into .NET and can be called with one line of code.
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> Jack,
> I looked up your code on Code400.
> That is exactly the same solution I've used.  Correct me if I'm wrong but that is almost exactly what Scott Klement's solution looks like.
> I was about to post the same thing. Turned it into a service program and called it MKD5R4.  Works well.
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> Bill
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> I recently posted an RPG solution I've been using to calculate MD5 checksum for IFS files in the Code400 forums
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> http://www.code400.com/forum/showthread.php/1611-MD5-Checksums?p=81983#post81983
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