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Resolved PB 6.5 to PB 2019 Migration

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  1. Devendra Singh
    Devendra Singh
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  3. Thursday, 13 February 2020 09:29 AM UTC

Hi Developers, 

 

Would it be possible to migrate an application built in PB 6.5 into PB 2019 directly ?

Does any one have faced any challenges during this migration ?  

 

Thank you !!

 

Regards,

Devendra Pratap Singh

  

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Armeen Mazda @Appeon
Armeen Mazda @Appeon Accepted Answer Pending Moderation
  1. Thursday, 13 February 2020 15:46 PM UTC
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Yes, it is possible to migrate directly from version 6.5 to 2019.  In fact, we have customers that have migrated from 5.0 to 2019.

But I would recommend watching this video and reading the links mentioned in the video carefully before you do anything: https://www.appeon.com/developers/library/videos/migrating-powerbuilder-2018.html  Most of the good advice mentioned by others is all in the video.

 

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Roland Smith
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  1. Thursday, 13 February 2020 13:40 PM UTC
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Make sure to do the migration against a copy of your code in case you have to go back to 6.5 to fix a problem encountered during the process.

 

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Marco Meoni
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  1. Thursday, 13 February 2020 09:38 AM UTC
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Hi Ben,

Here the documentation, upgrade is certainly possible:

https://docs.appeon.com/appeon_online_help/pb2019/migrating_pb_apps/index.html

Best,

.m

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René Ullrich
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  1. Thursday, 13 February 2020 09:36 AM UTC
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Hi Devendra,

I think it should be possible.

One challenge is the change from ANSI to Unicode.

Other challenges may depend on features you are using.

HTH, 

René

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Michael Kramer
  1. Michael Kramer
  2. Thursday, 13 February 2020 13:50 PM UTC
ANSI to Unicode will most probably impact some code.

Also, review migration notes referenced by Marco's reply.

Side effects of upgrading is general upgrades to your environment - examples: Database drivers (like native drivers for MSSQL or Oracle), SQL dialect (like outer join syntax), OLE automation (like newer MS Office version), and external calls (like upgraded Windows version).

Sometimes the core PowerBuilder code is easily upgraded but upgrades to runtime environment outside PowerBuilder forces you to change code in your PowerScript apps as well.
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