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Q&A Forum Tip: Including Source Code in Your Question
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  1. Last updated 4 years ago
  2.  Manuel Rivera replied 9 months ago
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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...
John Fauss John Fauss
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Please Update Your Queries With The Solution
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  2.  Olan Knight replied 4 years ago
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Saw this and thought it was perfect. Note the angry mob in the background on panel 4.   :)
Olan Knight Olan Knight
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Source code forward declarations question
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  1. Last updated 1 day ago
  2.  kitty he @Appeon replied 17 minutes ago
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We thought we were seeing possible object corruption in our 20+ year old application. It appeared that several objects had duplicate type definitions in the source code, so we removed the duplicates. Now, 3 months later, while editing a script in 1 o...
Jim Reese Jim Reese
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PowerServer version of application is 10 times slower than client/server version
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  1. Last updated 12 hours ago
  2.  Logan Liu @Appeon replied 49 minutes ago
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PowerBuilder 2022 r3 build 3397 PowerServer application running on Windows environment deployed to Azure server farm SQL Server DBMS Hello fellow PBLers... We are now at the point in our PowerServer journey where we are standing up our production ...
Mike Sinclair Mike Sinclair
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Deployed exe will not start or open main window
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  1. Last updated 3 weeks ago
  2.  Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 8 hours ago
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I created a 32 bit project object for my target and ran the deployment to create an exe file. I attempted to run the resulting exe file but when I do, nothing happens. There is no error message of any sort and the exe file does not appear to be runni...
Rich Gibson Rich Gibson
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How To: Integrate Agentic AI With My PowerBuilder Application
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  2.  Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 8 hours ago
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Hi all. I am wondering if anyone had luck integrating their PowerBuilder application in an agentic AI fashion. For example: User opens your deployed PB App Starts chatting with the AI, ChatGPT for example Then asks said AI to create a Purcha...
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Ali Mahmoud Ali Mahmoud
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Compiler: [FATAL]: Exception occurred while linking
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  1. Last updated 3 weeks ago
  2.  Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 8 hours ago
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Hi all I am trying to test solution so I converted an app and trying to compile it. I am getting the following error: [FATAL]: Exception occurred while linking, exception code =0xc0000005. PB 2025R2 - Runtime 3726 Any ideas?
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Yiannis Papadomichelakis Yiannis Papadomichelakis
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Get original value in Datawindow Expression
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  1. Last updated 14 hours ago
  2.  Luis Avilan replied 11 hours ago
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Hi everyone Quick question:Does anyone know if I can access the original value of a Datawindow column in a Datawindow expression? In Powerscript, I can easily get the original value using the getitemxy methods: dw.getitemstring(row, "my_column", P...
Markus Eckert Markus Eckert
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PB 2025 R2 Datetime2 support and Oracle Timestamp
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  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 12 hours ago
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Hi, Following the upgrade to PowerBuilder 2025 R2, we are encountering a blocking issue in our application, likely related to Datetime2 support: - Our Oracle version is 12.2.0.1- All our dates are in TIMESTAMP(6) WITH LOCAL TIME ZONE format When a...
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Luc Railhac Luc Railhac
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The BLEAK future of PowerBuilder and what could be done about it
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  1. Last updated 1 year ago
  2.  David Peace -Consulting Partner Powersoft replied 18 hours ago
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Just sharing a few concerns about the bleak future of PowerBuilder here and what could be done about it... We all know PowerBuilder apps work like a rock - surviving major O/S upgrades (even without any PB upgrades) - and can last 20 years, 50 years...
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PowerObject ! PowerObject !
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Problem with quoted identifier with pb2022/Ado.net/sql server
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  1. Last updated 1 day ago
  2.  Peter Pang @Appeon replied 1 day ago
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Hello I have an Powerbuilder 2025 application, with database sql server. We connect to the database with ado.net. My problem is when in a sql i have a string with "Value", it's not reconized. What i can do if i don't want modify all the applicatio...
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Robin Gauthier Robin Gauthier
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Appeon PowerBuilder Certification
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  2.  Richard Frantz replied 1 day ago
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So this is odd, the below job posting is mandating Appeon PB certification. I didn't even know there was such a thing. Is there and I missed it? https://www.dice.com/job-detail/67b90034-3d3a-4814-931d-ef5e0536470c
Richard Frantz Richard Frantz
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Secure Connection Encryptor standalone tool
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  1. Last updated 2 days ago
  2.  Diego Marrero replied 1 day ago
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Hi all. It would be nice to have the new Secure Connection Encryptor as a standalone tool that could be deployed in the customer's system. I was wondering if anyone has developed anything like this, or if Appeon has thought about providing it. Be...
Diego Marrero Diego Marrero
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Data type for UUID in datawindow
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  2.  René Ullrich replied 1 day ago
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Hello Using PB 2025 R2 build 6430, PostgreSQL 18.4 on x86_64-windows, compiled by msvc-19.44.35226, 64-bit, ADO.NET DB to connect Postgresql.My ADO.net connnection My table structure [ From PG Admin ] Datawindow [ Column specification ] UUID datat...
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Sivaprakash BKR Sivaprakash BKR
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SMTPClient PB2025R STARTTLS
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  1. Last updated 3 days ago
  2.  Ken Guo @Appeon replied 1 day ago
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Hi all, for years we are using PBNISMTP.We had no issue with our SMTP while using the connection_type = 2 (STARTTLS property) inside PBNISMTP object.The new SMTPClient object has no STARTTLS property and it is implied that is autoconfigured by the p...
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Panos Platanas Panos Platanas
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PowerBuilder DW Resetting Update Properties
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  1. Last updated 2 days ago
  2.  Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 2 days ago
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Did I read somewhere that PB auto resetting update properties when you change the sql behind a dw is going to be fixed? Or is already fixed?
Jeff Martin Jeff Martin
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connecttonewobject returns -3 when trying to connect to Excel OLE
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  1. Last updated 2 days ago
  2.  Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 2 days ago
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connecttonewobject returns -3 when trying to connect to Excel OLE It works fine on our normal client PCs but not on a certain machine. It stopped working suddenly, worked fine for years. We did a new excel installation as well just to be sure that E...
Thorsten Kummer Thorsten Kummer
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Possible PowerBuilder 2025 R2 bug when creating a DataWindow based on a stored procedure with a UNIQUEIDENTIFIER parameter
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  2.  Markus Eckert replied 2 days ago
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I am currently working with the following environment: PowerBuilder 2025 R2, Build 6430Microsoft OLE DB Driver 19 for SQL ServerMicrosoft SQL Server 2022 and SQL Server 2025I have identified a possible issue when attempting to create a DataWindow ba...
Juan Alejandro Lam López Juan Alejandro Lam López
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PDF MIME type text/xml
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  1. Last updated 6 days ago
  2.  Peter Pang @Appeon replied 2 days ago
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Hello I want to add a XML-file to a PDF. If I do it the MIME type of the file will be application/octet-stream. But I need text/xml. How can I manage that in Powerbuilder 2025 R2 (PDFnative)? Regards Roy
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Roy Bungert Roy Bungert
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Silent Install Fails with ResultCode=-3 for Partial Component Options (opt=PB / opt=PBRT) — PowerBuilder 2022 R2 Build 2819 GA Offline Installer
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  1. Last updated 4 days ago
  2.  Mora Wang @Appeon replied 3 days ago
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Product: PowerBuilder 2022 R2, Build 2819 (GA offline installer) Environment: Windows Server/Client (Intune-managed endpoint), previous PowerBuilder version was deployed with IDE-only footprint successfully Issue Description: We are attempting to ...
Manoj Chowdhury Manoj Chowdhury
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Clipboard function aborts with very large data
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  1. Last updated 3 days ago
  2.  Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 3 days ago
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PowerBuilder 2022 GA Build 1892 We are getting aborts in a window when the clipboard contains a very large string. I tracked down the abort to this: ls_clipboard = ClipBoard() The data in the clipboard is 281,232 KB which I determined by pasting i...
Roland Smith Roland Smith
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More of a tip than a question, to select an entire code block
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  1. Last updated 6 days ago
  2.  Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 6 days ago
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I haven't seen this documented anywhere, so thought I'd pass it along. In the new powerscript editor, if you collapse an outlined code block, you can select the entire block by either triple-clicking on the remaining visible line, or by clicking on o...
Jim Reese Jim Reese
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