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Resolved Moving to Powerbuilder 2019R3

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  1. Gbenga Owolabi
    Gbenga Owolabi
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  3. Wednesday, 28 April 2021 07:30 AM UTC

We have about 5 Customers using our solution developed with Powerbuilder 2017 R3. We have issues with some of them as they are not comfortable with the mode of deployment into their environment
We want to move to Powerbuilder 2019 R3 to allow us to make use of the https deployment.

The available conditions/questions;

1. With each customer having its own application server. How do I push app files and subsequent updates to a specific customer's application server so that the user systems can pick from there?

2. How can include odbc connection setup in the https deployment so that it will automatically install on the user system?

3. Is there a way to deploy the application into MSI installable files?

 

Kindly help as we do not want to lose our customers because of this.

 

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Armeen Mazda @Appeon
Armeen Mazda @Appeon Accepted Answer Pending Moderation
  1. Wednesday, 28 April 2021 17:50 PM UTC
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Hi Gbenga,

PowerClient, which is a new feature of PB 2019 R3, does exactly what you want to do.  It handles installing your app and PB runtime to users, installing DB drivers, automatically updating your app and PB runtime whenever there is change, etc. all from an HTTP server.  Take a look at the tour of this feature: https://www.appeon.com/products/power-client

If you need to deploy your app/database to the Cloud and/or want to get away from having to deal with DB driver installation/config, I would recommend you evaluate PowerServer 2021.  It does everything PowerClient does, plus it converts your app's architecture to cloud-native REST API driven, automatically.  Usually little to no code changes required, and you should see your app running in just a few days.  Here is more info about PowerServer 2021: https://www.appeon.com/products/powerserver

By the way, no matter you go with PowerClient or PowerServer, you can experience how seamless the client installaiton is by running one of our demo apps: https://demo.appeon.com/

Best regards,
Armeen

 

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mike S
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  1. Wednesday, 28 April 2021 14:39 PM UTC
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#3 - use an installer application to build installs: Inno Setup , NSIS, installshield, etc.

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mike S
  1. mike S
  2. Wednesday, 28 April 2021 18:27 PM UTC
#1 - if the application is exactly the same for each customer, it may make more sense for you to host the deployment server instead.
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Gbenga Owolabi
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  2. Monday, 3 May 2021 15:50 PM UTC
Thank you for the information. We have gone the Inno Setup way for now.
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