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A recent post included some PowerScript code, and I thought I would pass along a tip for pasting code snippets that produces a slightly more readable result than simply pasting code into the website's text editor. The toolbar contains a button to as...
Saw this and thought it was perfect. Note the angry mob in the background on panel 4.   :) ...
PS 2022R2 I'm 99% sure i had a transaction timeout.  I was not able to see it in the event viewer/log however.  Is it logged?  I would expect it to log when a database transaction is killed due to timeout regardless of the log leve.   The time out...
QUESTION:  With the recent PowerBuilder 2022 R2 update of ADO.NET, is PowerBuilder now enforcing rules that were not previously enforced?   What is described below WAS NOT a problem with PowerBuilder 2022 R1...but with the release of PowerBuilder 2...
Hi,   I am digesting how to make web api run on linux. Referring to this link https://docs.appeon.com/ps2022r2/Running_Web_APIs_with_Kestrel.html I understand that, 1) Copy all files from net6.0 folder to linux server 2) Run this  ServerAPIs.exe ...
Hi, I have an incidence, I have a datawindow that in the resize event I modify the width of some rectangles to make them the size of the dw (I use them as header and I want them to be always seen the full size of the window), when the window is enla...
Hello, I am using PB2022 R3 and have a datawindow with a stored procedure as the source. When I do a retrieve on the datawindow it crashes PowerBuilder. The call to the stored procedure is:   EXECUTE ESS9982 3158069, "2020-01-01" , "@", 0 , "@" , ...
Hi,   I was trying to migrate the application from 2019R2 build 2353 to 2019R3 with build 2803. When I was adding the target then existing pbl are not getting migrated without pbwsclient.pbd. and If I remove the pbwsclient.pbd from the library th...
I am pretty sure I saw somewhere in the documentation a list of features that we shouldn't use in background threads. Now I can't find it. I have a multi-threaded C++ app that calls PB code using PBNI. For some reason if it is processing more than o...
Hi,   Since 2021,our organization has been using Power Builder 2021. As we are transition to new machine, we are not able to install PowerBuilder 2021. With bootstrap process, we don't have option to select Power builder 2021 version to download a...
Dear everyone,    I am having an issue creating a IQ db connection from our application. I do not wish to use ODBC connection (I tried it's working fine).  On my computer and user computer SAP IQ Client Suite 16.0 sp08 (64-bits) is installed. My P...
Hi, We have a few large reports in our application. I am looking to include paging so the data in these reports is retrieved on-demand. Would  Retrieve.AsNeeded would be a solution for this? (Correct me if I am wrong). Looking at the documentation ...
Hi, I want to implement the import/export functionality from Powerbuilder to OneDrive.   Has anyone any implemented it in PB?   Thank you...
Hi, is it possible to add a new row to the DropDownDW list or edit it? I have the issue when users don't want to select any from the drop down and in that case it should pull everything from the database related to that report but actually when users...
Hi      I imported Bruce Armstrong  qrcodegenerator dll into my pb 2023R3 application and it worked fine.   I created a function that takes a string text and return a Blob using the same code that Mr. Armstrong used in the demo. It worked fine if...
Hi, We are trying to integrate our application which is build in Powerbuilder with Azure AD for user authentication. Currently our application is using PB 2019 R3 (build 2703). Based on appeon suggestions, we tried upgrading powerbuilder to PB 2019...
Hello everyone,   I am migrating a PB2019 application that uses SOAP to PB2022. As SOAP has been deprecated in PB2022 can anyone suggest a strategy to replace the SOAP code with REST API? Thanks in advance....
We installed PB 2022R3 yesterday. We need to build our application using runtime version 22.0.0.1900 until we have fully tested R3. When using pbautobuild, we are getting the following error and are unable to build the application.  We are able to ...
HI, PB2019R2 Oracle 19c   We have a frequent issue : Minidumpfiles are created until the HDD is full. Really annoying when it happens on a client PC. We use the ORA DBMS -> pbora190.dll These files are created randomly, sometimes when the a...
Hi, We have an App in PB2022R2. The App can be launched several times. This is usefull when a long process is executed in the APP, the user used to work in a second instance of the same executable while waiting the end of process in exe 1. Since ...
hi, we have currently the source code is in PB22 R2 2819 migrated from pb21 / prior to that it was in pb 12.5. Previous day we have build and copied pbd/exe/pb22 dlls in users PC. but many datawindow computed fields have creating issues , now compute...
Good Day! Our source control vendor is no longer supporting their SCC Plugin for PowerBuilder. We would like to build our own, but I cannot find the API documentation. I found the documentation for using SCC in PB IDE, but not the actual API documen...


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