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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...
Our large applications use SQL Anywhere 12 and ODBC.  We are using Powerbuilder 17 Build 1880.   If you try to put a very simple and very basic query into a datawindow such as... SELECT "budget"."consumer_id", 0.00 as ohcrap FROM "budget" then t...
Is the Powerbuilder 2017 is compatible with Win server 2016...
HI All,   i am going to try my best to explain my problem.   I have a datawindow where multiple records are being retrieved. The design ( the heigth) of the datawindow is designed that only one row is visible, but there's a scrollbar to scroll in...
Hi All,  We are using windows function WNetUseConnectionA and WNetCancelConnectionA in our power builder application to connect to a NAS drive which is not working and getting error message saying Mapping is failed due to multiple connections to the...
Greetings, I'm doing test pbc190 and pb2019. In case of deploying in pb2019 by incremental, only updated pbl and pbd are updated. But in case of pbc190 by incremental, all pbls and pbds are updated. Is it bug of pbc190? I want to update only mod...
We are currently trying out a trial version of PB 2019.  We are running against a SQL SERVER 2016 DB. Using the IDE we're able to connect, retrieve and update to the database.  When the .EXE is built we can only connect and retrieve from the DB.  No ...
Our current version control system is antiquated and needs to be replaced.  I am giving subversion a try because I need to be able to have the capability to lock.  I followed the basic setup from Bruce's video and have the following questions/issues....
Hello If several different strong named assembly releases are deployed into the GAC (e.g.  Sybase.powerbuilder.core      v4.0_17.0.0.0_12345897d75b      v4.0_19.0.0.0_65789084e76b ) or in our case OLF.Agtech.Shared  etc.. How can we specify a ...
Hello fellow legacy modernization travelers Is it possible to do dynamic OleCustomControls ? When an ActiveX is placed on a visual container in the painter, the control is declared in the source code and the painter glues in some binary hidden stuf...
I have noticed that DataObjectFactory.LoadDataWindow uses the App Domain's Base directory to find the pbwconfig file.  This will not work for us since we may have different DataWindow versions with the same name.  We need a way to dynamically set the...
Hello    Back in 2012 Bruce Armstrong created a PowerBuilder.TV How-To video titled “Using .NET Assemblies with PowerBuilder”   The manifest creation tool he uses, GenMan32,   https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/junfeng/2007/04/14/genman32-a-tool-to-g...
I am new how to use Data Pipeline. So far I know how to create them and execute them in the GUI of PB2019 and it transfer the data with no issues. Now I want to use the pipeline object and execute it via PB Script and here it is where I do not know...
I am trying to open a https site with POST method to include ID and password to access the https site and open the site on the default internet browser. The POST I tried to use HttpClient and sendRequest method. But I cannot make it works. The return...
Hello  I have several datawindows coming from an old application with graphic SQL written win Powerbuilder outer Join syntax (*= or =*). For example: select student.name, student_email.email from student, student_email where student.id *= student_e...
I created a .Net DLL (COM) and managed to use it in PowerBuilder (12.5 Classic)... so far so good... The downside that we need te register this DLL in order to be able to use it. I've read that there's possibility to use such a DLL withou...
My application was developed in PB 12.5 and I am migrating it to PB 2019. It runs from the IDE, but the deployed version on IDE machine errors out with message: DBMS OLE DB is not supported in your current installation, where PROVIDER='SQLOLEDB'. On ...
Hello All, During the migration of PB9 application to PB17r3. The POS function is automatically replaced with POSA in some places. However some places as it with POS function. So it is required to change manually POSA at the place of POS function. ...
Hi Team, Can I use Oracle 18c with powerbuildr2017. Please advise.   Regards Nikesh...
HELP!When we "upgraded" to Oracle 12C from Oracle 11g several years ago, we started seeing the following EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. we connected to a database in both SQL+ and when running a script in SQL+. We use standard PL/SQL and run the scripts in SQL...
Hi,I have 2 columns in DW, both of them are DDDWmethod and symbol Method DDDW is like:id(data_col)  method(disp_col)  symbol 1                  met_1                 X 2                  met_2                 X 3                  met_3           ...


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