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Resolved Migration Assistant and Workspace

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  1. Lorna Vargas
    Lorna Vargas
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  3. Sunday, 8 November 2020 21:52 PM UTC

I am in the process of migrating of our old PowerBuilder 5 application to the new version 2019.  I ran the Migration Assistant and select the main libraries and completed Wizard.  I saved the files as txt file but it  won’t open in the Workspace( File -> Open WorkSpace).  What should be the default to save the file?  Please advise.

Thanks in advance.

Lorna Vargas

vargasl@metro.net.

 

 

 

 

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Chris Pollach @Appeon
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  1. Sunday, 8 November 2020 22:07 PM UTC
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Hi Lorna;

   The "Migration Assistant" does not migrate any aspect of your PB 5 application. It only merely advises you on what code / commands might need to be refactored in version 5 and/or PB 2019 in order to align your Apps code to run under version 2019.

  Since your migrating an app that existed before the "workspace" object existed, you'll need to create a new WS in PB2019 & Target for your old App first. It's only in the new Target object where you'll specify "use existing application". The the IDE will prompt you for the PB Application Object and PBLs to use. Once that is done, the real migration will start.

  Take careful note of any suggested fixes recommend by the migration assistant. Some recommended changes may only be done in PB v5 & before any migration starts.

HTH

Regards ... Chris

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Armeen Mazda @Appeon
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  1. Monday, 9 November 2020 02:19 AM UTC
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In addition to what Chris said, it is extremely important you carefully watch the migration video and read the migration guide.  A lot has changed over 20 years since version 5.

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Andrew Barnes
  1. Andrew Barnes
  2. Monday, 9 November 2020 20:27 PM UTC
For as much as has changed, I am always impressed by how much has not changed. My shop has been using PowerBuilder since version 5 came out in 1996 or 1995, and we actually have code that has happily ported to versions 6.0, 6.5, 7.0, 9.0, 12.5, and now 2017R3. It is surprisingly stable that way.
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Armeen Mazda @Appeon
  1. Armeen Mazda @Appeon
  2. Monday, 9 November 2020 21:17 PM UTC
Thanks for the feedback Andrew!
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