Hi.
Don't know why it was removed from the installer. You should contact Appeon's support.
You can experiment with the following procedure to see if you can bring it back (this is unofficial, and wasn't tested).
- Go to folder where Appeon PowerBuilder Installer is installed (in my computer it is C:\Program Files (x86)\Appeon\PowerBuilder Installer). If it isn't the case for you, find the appropriate location.
- There should be a subfolder named "config".
- Check if you have pb_components_2021.json.
- If you haven't then you need to find it (I could send it to you).
- There should be a file called product.json. Take a backup. Edit it. Find the entry starting with:
{
"index": "2",
"isShow": "1",
"version": "2019",
...
Add right before that the following (while the location should not be important, I did put it where I mentioned):
{
"index": "3",
"isShow": "1",
"version": "2021",
"name": "PowerBuilder",
"productName": "PowerBuilder",
"productSubName": "2021",
"jsonFileName": "pb_components_2021.json",
"build-time": "2021-01-20 12:25:00",
"releaseNoteAddress": "https://docs.appeon.com/pb/release_bulletin_for_pb/Version_2021.html",
"systemRequirementsAddress": "https://docs.appeon.com/pb2021/release_bulletin_for_pb/system_requirements.html",
"Description": "A suite of tools and libraries for developing cloud or client/server applications for Windows devices.",
"InstalledDir": "C:\\Program Files\\Appeon",
"DownloadDir": "C:\\ProgramData\\Appeon\\InstallPackages",
"DisplayVersion": "2021",
"Psversion": "2021",
"PbMajorVersion": "21.0",
"PsMajorVersion": "13.0",
"RegiterPathPBVersion": "21.0",
"RegiterPathPSVersion": "13.0",
"GaUrlPrefix": "https://file.appeon.com/download/APB/2021/GA/",
"MrUrlPrefix": "https://file.appeon.com/download/APB/2021/GA/",
"PublicUrlPrefix": "https://file.appeon.com/download/APB/2021/Public/",
"DownloadMainpkg": true,
"IncludeMainPackages": [
{
"ComponentName": "MainInstallPackage",
"Version": "",
"IsSelected": true
},
{
"ComponentName": "MRMainInstallPackage",
"Version": "",
"IsSelected": true
}
],
"IncludeComponents": [
{
"ComponentName": "PowerBuilder",
"Version": "",
"IsSelected": true
},
{
"ComponentName": "PowerBuilderCompiler",
"Version": "",
"IsSelected": true
},
{
"ComponentName": "PowerServerToolkit",
"Version": "",
"IsSelected": true
},
{
"ComponentName": "SnapDevelop",
"Version": "",
"IsSelected": true
},
{
"ComponentName": "DwConverter",
"Version": "",
"IsSelected": true
},
{
"ComponentName": "ScriptMigrator",
"Version": "",
"IsSelected": true
}
]
},
Save the json. If you run again the installer you should be able to see PB 2021 as an option. Be careful because this section may have some errors. Example: "PsMajorVersion": "13.0" may be wrong...
In my tests I was able to download the offline installer for 1509...
As I already mentioned, this is unofficial. The right way would be to contact appeon support and ask them to bring it back.
Finally for any version of powerbuilder, I always recommend to get the offline version, and store it somewhere so you don't have to download it again.
Andreas.
