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A recent post included some PowerScript code, and I thought I would pass along a tip for pasting code snippets that produces a slightly more readable result than simply pasting code into the website's text editor. The toolbar contains a button to as...
Hi all,   We are now converting our PB code on the server side to dll using IIS to publish. Is there any method could trace the log in the dll? Any function or interface we could use? Before we used the Errorlogging Object on the EA server. Now cou...
Not able to add a data source when trying to configure power server WEB. The drop down ODBC data source has only four default options listed. Can anyone help me with this? Please check the attachment. I captured the screenshot at the step where i am ...
Hi Guru In an old server client application I have to authenticate on LDAP. ( i have not active directoy but another ldap manager ) The information I have is: Host: ldap.xxxxxx.com Tcp Port: 389 BN: dc = xxxxxx, dc, yyyyy Uid: xxxcpwd: Xxix ...
Hello, Using PB 2017 SP3 Build 1880 [in a computed column in a datawindow] I need to display a computed column with amount in Indian Format [ ##,##,##,##0.00 ]   (See the comma).  When I create the expression as  namecolumn + ' (' + String(groupb...
Is there a way to set a column protect property in a grid window?   What I am trying to do is if the user changes another column, I would like to change the protect property on the comment column on the same row, so they are allowed to add a commen...
In Beta is possible to publish rest service ?! I see PB 12.5 can publish rest , but not find in PB 2017 R3 b.1880 to publish rest !...
I want to clarify the recommended direction for PB applications moving forward. Is it correct to say that Appeon is recommending customers move away from using the PB Desktop functionality? It appears that the guidance moving forward will be to gener...
Hi All, One of my customers is asking the PowerBuilder Security Code scanning as they have to submit the security code scanning report to the security team for review before rollout. Anyone know is it any tool ( or third-party tool ) can do this? Ma...
Hi Guru I'm rearranging the various manuals of courses made around the world under the guise of Powersoft, Sybase, Appeon. Does anyone have the manuals of the courses made in Vienna in 1996? If someone could share them ........ thank you ...
Hello everybody, In the datawindow painter, I specify "Help!" as a pointer for a column. At runtime, the "Help!" pointer appears only if the cursor is not in the column (see illustrations below). Is it normal behaviour ? Thank you ! Pierre    ...
Good day, Has anyone implemented feature flagging with Powerbuilder? Maybe using Launchdarkly, featureflow.io, or something similar? I'm wondering if it's possible to incorporate into our PB projects.   Thanks. Dan Mullings...
We are getting ready to migrate from 11.5 to PB 2017 but all of our developers have objects checked out.  We've exported these checked out objects to save any changes from getting lost in the migration.  The question is, is it safe to migrate even w...
PB 2019 IDE is really slow on start up. Is that going away?   Thanks Steen...
I'm using Powerbuilder 12.5. In design mode I have expression on protected which is working how is intend. When i run application is not working at all. Any help please....
pb 2019 BUILD 2002   dw buttons are not rendering correctly. I'm using PNG files 16x16 and no one is rendering correctly when set to original size I have attached a sample file. and screenshot. The picture is blurry. the same file used in a menu...
Hello PB Experts,   My project is upgrade from powerbuilder 7.03 to PB 2017 R2, my question is: is there any know issue, upgrade effort estimation norm to apply into my project.   It is about 1 milion line of code so it is hard to scan source and...
We are looking to improve performance in PS web, and we use querymode for searching.  And, in order to get around all of the limitations of querymode, we use sqlpreview to add missing functionality to the querymode processing.   These tidbits for s...
I am trying to connect 12c database  through PowerBuilder 2017 R3 with following code  if not IsValid (SQLADM) then SQLADM = create n_tr end if ls_logon_user_prefix = this.of_prefix(as_userid) SQLADM.of_Init(is_AppINIFile, "Database") SQLADM.log...
How much memory is used by each of the following standard data types? Date Time Datetime Real Double Decimal  ...
Hi,   How can I use the stock icons provided by powerbuilder on DW buttons ? or can I extract the files from pPowerBuilder,  if yes .. what dll ?   Thanks Steen  ...


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