My first time outside the default activation group

[David FOXWELL <David.FOXWELL@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

Just been given an RPG source called MD5 and told to call it to encrypt all the passwords of our internet users. I don't know exactly where this source comes from but you can find it in the archives and elsewhere on the net.

It says to compile with ACTGRP(QILE) and BNDDIR(QC2LE)

We are a shop where everything is compiled with ACTGRP(*CALLER) and there are as yet no SRVPGM to be found. So, I believe that effectively, everything will run in the DFTACTGRP.

Now as MD5 has a stack of SRVPGM, I understand that strange things might happen between calls if I compile it with ACTGRP(*CALLER).

My program will read a userID file, and for each user call MD5 for the encryption.

If my program starts in DFTACTGRP, how should I handle things between each call to MD5?
Why compile MD5 in QILE ?
Couldn't I create a module from MD5, bind it to my program and compile my program in a named activation group that I would destroy when all my passwords are encypted?


Thanks.