Re: Calculate hash for a *very* large file

[Charles Wilt <charles.wilt@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dan,

I did see that in the service program when I took a quick look at it.   But
it seemed to me that it only did the conversion if you passed it a string.

Reading an IFS file, the program didn't do any conversion.

I could have missed it though.

Charles

On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 5:04 PM, Dan <dan27649@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Thanks Charles.  I did a small test using the same string on the i as well
> as in a text file in Windows, and got the same MD5 value.  I suspect the
> service program might already be converting the input data:
>     // Get conversion table for 819 from 37
>     Qtqcvrt(Ccsid1:St1:StartMap:L1:Ccsid2:St2:Gccasn:L2:To819:L3:L4:Fb);
>     // Change message to ccsid 819 (ascii).
>     Convert(Inputdata:%Addr(To819):InputLength);
> This is from the link I provided in my original post.
>
> Unfortunately, I just tried it on a larger file, one of the smallest I'll
> need to be able to test, and got RNQ0425:
>  The length requested for storage allocation is out of range.
>
> I guess I need to figure out if I can allocate more than 16776704 bytes.
> FWIW, we're running on V5R4.
>
> - Dan
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