1. Buddy Rice
  2. PowerBuilder
  3. Tuesday, 19 February 2019 17:28 PM UTC

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 while objects are checked out or should we export the objects then undo checkout and then migrate?

Andrew Barnes Accepted Answer Pending Moderation
  1. Tuesday, 26 February 2019 22:17 PM UTC
  2. PowerBuilder
  3. # 1

There should be no issue with migrating libraries that have checked out objects.  We recently upgraded from PB12.5 to PB17 under that exact scenario, and I would imagine that things would go as smoothly with PB11.5 as with PB12.5. 

After the migration, developers with checked out code, checked out their objects in the migrated PB17 code, applied their changes,  and they were good to go.  We use the PB Native SCC, and version label our SCC folder structure, so that we could run the PB12.5 version side with the migrated PB17 version, making it easy to keep track of which objects in PB12.5 were new or checked out.  With PB's Edit Source capability, it is very easy to copy objects individually from PB12.5 to PB17.

Comment
There are no comments made yet.
Roland Smith Accepted Answer Pending Moderation
  1. Tuesday, 19 February 2019 17:38 PM UTC
  2. PowerBuilder
  3. # 2

Definitely keep a copy of the entire target before doing the migration just in case something gets corrupted.

The migration process won't change the source code so I think you are safe to leave objects checked out.

 

Comment
There are no comments made yet.
  • Page :
  • 1


There are no replies made for this question yet.
However, you are not allowed to reply to this question.