mattcasters opened a new issue, #6602:
URL: https://github.com/apache/hop/issues/6602

   ### What would you like to happen?
   
   It would be nice to have a few new types of technical key generation in the 
Dimension Lookup/Update transform:
   * A UUID: generate a new UUID which we consider unique (String)
   * An existing String field
   * An existing Binary field
   
   For the existing fields: these values can come from EDW systems like Data 
Vault.
   It should also be possible to construct a hash key based off an existing 
field.  Usually that field can be constructed by concatenating the natural key 
and the update timestamp.  This can simply be done with the "Add a checksum" 
transform.  What works is calculating an MD5 over a business key along with the 
update timestamp.  The String hash key is simply the Hexadecimal form of the 
Binary MD5.  (16 bytes or 32 characters)
   
   
   ### Issue Priority
   
   Priority: 3
   
   ### Issue Component
   
   Component: Transforms


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