Re: Program to Calculate Hash using SHA-256 of a file

Bruce,
I was kidding about the IBM part. I knew you did and yes we have met.

The O.P. indicated in their opening question: "Must work on V5R2" so you might have missed that. But that was a very key part of the question for two reasons. a) Which release in the Info/knowledge center to look at and b) will that very old release even do this.

While i agree there is value in people learning on their own it flatly infuriates me when IBM says: "Go to the info/knowledge center and search for something you'll never find" rather than provide a link. Yes in Forums such as this there are 'moochers' who want you to provide them step by step to do something straightforward and simple but in this case that version of the infocenter has been stricken by IBM and hence the posting here.

- Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis

www.Frankeni.com
www.iDevCloud.com - Personal Development IBM i timeshare service.
www.iInTheCloud.com - Commercial IBM i Cloud Hosting.

On 8/17/2018 2:18 PM, Bruce Vining wrote:

Initially I was going to provide a link, but I was not at all sure what
release to link to. And while I should have said google IBM Information
Center VxRx (supply the correct version/release) rather than "go to", I do
believe providing generic step by step directions also provides some
educational value for the next time someone wants to look something up.
There's a wealth of knowledge in the various Information Centers.

And yes I did work for IBM, but left around 10 years ago. In fact I'm
pretty sure we have met a few times in the distant past.

On Fri, Aug 17, 2018 at 1:10 PM DrFranken <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 8/17/2018 1:49 PM, Bruce Vining wrote:

> Go to the IBM Information Center for the release
> Select APIs
> Select category MI Interface Instructions
> Select IBM i Machine Interface
> Scroll down to CIPHER

Did you work for IBM? This is a pet peeve of mine about IBM. They use
this statements all the time 'go to ....' as if I know where that is.
And then when i spend an hour or more digging I finally give up in
frustration as I can't find it. If they took the time to write the
documentation perhaps the extra 3 to 5 seconds it takes to include a
link TO that point would have been fricken awesome!

Same thing applies to replies in forum threads. Clearly you know where
that is or you wouldn't have written an answer her but rather than
including a link there are generic instructions.

Personally I looked earlier today for the V5R2 infocenter and I'll be
danged if I can find it!


- Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis

www.Frankeni.com
www.iDevCloud.com - Personal Development IBM i timeshare service.
www.iInTheCloud.com - Commercial IBM i Cloud Hosting.


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