1. Tracy Lamb
  2. PowerBuilder
  3. Wednesday, 1 December 2021 17:44 PM UTC

Hi all,

My old development machine crashed a couple days ago and can't be repaired :(  Repair tech said it's the power supply and the motherboard (all-in-one machine).  I'm trying to get a backup of all the files from the hard drive.  I still support applications I wrote in PB12, but don't have PB12 installed on my current development machine.  

Does anyone know how I can get PB12 installed on the current machine?  I'm running PB2019 R3 Build 2728 on the current machine.

TIA,

~~~Tracy

 

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Shenn Sellers Accepted Answer Pending Moderation
  1. Thursday, 2 December 2021 16:49 PM UTC
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As others have mentioned you will need a license file.  If you have that, then you just need to install PB 12 on your current machine.

 

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PB 12 Installation Files

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  1. Miguel Leeuwe
  2. Friday, 3 December 2021 04:59 AM UTC
Great stuff! Your 12.6 is not totally complete, but let's see what Tracy needs (if she needs anything at all).

regards
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  1. Tracy Lamb
  2. Tuesday, 14 December 2021 16:56 PM UTC
It's PB 12.0 that I need

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  1. Shenn Sellers
  2. Tuesday, 14 December 2021 17:18 PM UTC
PB 12 is up there.
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Armeen Mazda @Appeon Accepted Answer Pending Moderation
  1. Wednesday, 1 December 2021 22:41 PM UTC
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Ouch, the issue is even you get the installer somewhere you need license file generated by SAP Website.  I recommend contacting SAP.  Appeon can’t help because we only got involved with version 2017 and newer.

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Miguel Leeuwe Accepted Answer Pending Moderation
  1. Thursday, 2 December 2021 05:44 AM UTC
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Hi Tracy,

Can't you just hookup your old disk drives to a new machine? (you said the motherboard / power supply has failed, but not the disk(s) ).

Do you still have your license somewhere? If it's a .lic file, you have to make sure that:
1. the computer name of your new machine is named the same way as your old machine.
2. You'll also have to make sure that you have a network card with the same MAC address as your old machine. You can use Mac changer for that (https://technitium.com/tmac/). The information for the computer name and MAC address should be in the .lic file.

If you have the license I guess there'd be no (legal) problem if anyone supplies you with the powerbuilder installer.

regards

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David Peace (Powersoft) Accepted Answer Pending Moderation
  1. Thursday, 2 December 2021 16:55 PM UTC
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Hi Tracey

You will need to go onto the SAP license manager and check your old license in and then generate a new one. I have not done that for sometime and it was always a pain! You should be able to get help from SAP Support (ha ha) as they control the license for you.

All the best

David

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Tracy Lamb Accepted Answer Pending Moderation
  1. Wednesday, 15 December 2021 04:37 AM UTC
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  3. # 4

Thank you all for your comments/responses... I was able to install PB 12.0 on a different machine thanks to the links provided by Shenn Sellers ... I successfully "deployed" one app that I support.  I'm sure if/when I need to provide mods (usually document changes), I will be able to do so.  I'll try to pressure customers to migrate to the new upgrade first, but you never know.

Sorry to take so long to respond... I spent almost an hour and a half with Sybase on-line chat, the end result was a recommendation to purchase a support plan and a list of contacts!  GGGRRRRR... Then the holidays have slowed my down.

Thanks again Shenn!

~~~Tracy

 

 

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  1. David Peace (Powersoft)
  2. Wednesday, 15 December 2021 14:13 PM UTC
Glad to hear that you are sorted now :)
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