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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...
Saw this and thought it was perfect. Note the angry mob in the background on panel 4.   :) ...
Hi Everyone, What can be done to avoid DLL hijacking for a Powerbuilder application in a Windows environment. Files may be signed using Microsoft sign tool but this will not protect from hijacking unless you somehow use verify to check the  files ...
Hello, PB 2019 R3, PostgreSQL 11 Got blob data in one of our tables where images are stored, which we are showing in two different ways.   The output looks different in the display size.   Why? Left hand side:   which is a picture column [ Inser...
Trying to use the new [appname].xml file to specify the location of the runtime files but I am wondering what files should I place in there.  I know the PB Runtimes but what about PBX files, Oracle Files, INI Files, etc.?  I am assuming that this fe...
I have an old Powerbuilder 12.5 desktop application.  It has been running fine, and I'm in the process of totally rewriting it in another language. However, I'd like it to continue to work until I can complete that project. Recently, some windows u...
I noticed that PB 2021 is storing the icon file name in the source code of the application object. I am wondering when this was added. This is something I brought up to Sybase during the PB 10 beta and I brought it up a couple times since. I am very...
PB Appeon Team, Our company is holding PB2017 R3 Standard edition license for all PB developers. Now we are looking for more licenses for new developers. What we came to know from Appeon portal that standard versions are no longer for new license an...
We use Powerserver 2019 Build 2151.00 here. As of Friday 2/4/22 the mulitbrowser plugin has stopped working for our clients and internally as well since we use Chrome.They get the message:"Appeon Web application has quit successfully. Please refresh...
Hi all, I am trying to convert Excel macro commands into Powerbuilder script. The following macro script validates a column against a named list... Sub SetColumnList()' SetColumnList Macro' Assigns a Named List to a column Range("G3:G65536,G1").Se...
Hi PowerSphere, I was wondering if someone noticed if PBTools was made open source ... again. (it was on codeplex - http://myelkovan.codeplex.com/)  PBTools are a bunch of pretty cool tools - made by Murat Yelkovan...  I have tried to reach ...
Hello, I just upgraded from Powerbuilder 10 to Powerbuilder 2021 and I want to use the new WebBrowser object you are providing. I cannot find any good example or tutorial about how to use it. I haven't been able to load a web page so far. I am settin...
Why am I receiving a useless notification "Awesome! You've caught up with all notifications"? (causing me to NOT have caught up with all of them). The red thingy on the notification bell icon is clear enough. Sometimes we just code stuff for the sa...
PB2019R3 BUILD 2728 Getting a couple of sql server errors using 64 bit PB and ODBC.  32bit PB no problems.  I didn't get this with PB 2017R3 64 bit.     The first one is caused by running a datawindow with a string argument: Select Error: SQLSTAT...
This is in PB2019 Build 2082, using the Firebird SQL Database. We have one user’s database from our application that is behaving extremely strangely for certain SQL retrieved through a datastore created at runtime (actually, our inherited datastore ...
Hi,  We have project that using MS TFS for source control, and using PowerGen to build the project. Recently we upgraded from PowerBuilder 2019 Build2170 to PowerBuilder 2019 R3 build2728. In the development environment, we create local work space f...
Hi, One of our customers is having problems when executing a PB 2021 runtime. They are getting a "Load library failed" error: The application was compiled in PB 2021 as 32-bit Pcode. The executable and associated PBDs, as well as the DLLs (inclu...
when i call ws give faultstring  System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapException: Could not load file or assembly 'Sybase.PowerBuilder.Interop.dll' or one of its dependencies. The specified module could not be found. ---> System.IO.FileNotFoundExcept...
Hi I Try the install two application CSS in same PC and the second installation not work, not install the application in the PC can Powerclient install more than one app CS in the same PC ..????   Luis  ...
Hello, We need to debug on client environment. Client doesn't want to open it's VM machine on internet. So we need to install Powerbuilder and offline license doesn't work on VM. How to do? Eval version is no more availabale for 2017 R3... Any id...
Hi Community, As part of a upgrade to Powerbuilder 2021, our security team has asked for a "Penetration Test Report" for Powerbuilder. They were a bit vague about the specifics, but said Appeon will know what they mean.  They also said something a...
Hello, I'm trying to fix IWArunner on a powerserver 2019 server. After I install it on my pc this is the error message I am getting when trying to run it.  2022-02-07 13:29:42 Download failed. HTTP status is abnormal. The error code is the HTTP sta...


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