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Documentation issue: hexdumping an SLS License ID

Open faangbait opened this issue 7 months ago • 0 comments

Throughout the IBM MAS documentation, there's a lot of tricky one-liners to generate the value for SLS_LICENSE_ID, a 12-character hexadecimal string. Most of them are actually three-liners. For example:

  • https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/mas-cd/continuous-delivery?topic=services-prerequisites-installing
  • https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/mas87/8.7.0?topic=installation-requirements
  • https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/mas-cd/continuous-delivery?topic=azure-prerequisites-installing

This is the line I've settled on, which is cleaner than the existing options:

hexdump -n 6 -e '8/8 "%08X" 1 "\n"' /dev/urandom | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]'

I wasn't sure which repo the documentation lived in, so I'm hoping the team here can forward this to the appropriate repository.

faangbait avatar Jul 24 '24 22:07 faangbait