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- Last updated 3 weeks ago
This is a compilation of tips you can and should follow to help you get answers to your questions in the Appeon Community QA forum, based on several years of my asking, following and answering posts. Not every tip listed here is applicable to every t...
Some IDE enhancements that should be doable (with or without AI) is to point out when the coder probably did something stupid.
for example: intend to call an ancestor function but forgetting to use super keyword super:: and instead creating recursio...
Hello All,
Good day!!
We are currently implementing a database password remediation solution for our PowerBuilder applications by retrieving secrets from Azure Key Vault using Azure App Registration (OAuth Client Credentials Flow).
However, we are...
PowerBuilder 2022 R3 Custom Application — Oracle Cloud Database Compatibility
- Misc
- Last updated 2 months ago
- Shannon Axon replied 2 months ago
We have a custom PowerBuilder 2022 R3 client/server application using the native Oracle interface. We are considering moving our Oracle database to OCI. Which OCI Oracle database services are supported, and are there known compatibility issues or spe...
powerbuilder using second time fails after first trail period got expired and reinstalled it again by different Email.
- Resolved
- How-to
- Last updated 2 months ago
- Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 2 months ago
previous installation of powerbuilder 2022 got expired after a month,so i uninstalled it and by another email downloaded another copy ,it got installed but when i wanted to use it gave message "i have to wait till 90 days after previous trial is over...
Default printer printing issues on the VDI
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- Advice
- Last updated 2 months ago
- Mark Lee @Appeon replied 2 months ago
Hello,
Our application is running on the PB 2025 Build 3726 (Runtime app is deployed as 32bit). Application is deployed to the VDI (Virtual desktop). When the users run the application on the VDI, they are NOT able to print the pages/screen to the...
We are experiencing an issue with our PowerBuilder application in a Citrix environment running on Windows Server 2022. The application intermittently becomes Not Responding when running through Citrix.The same application works fine in our Citrix env...
I have an old application built under powerbuilder 6.0 (Yes very old version) and using sqlanywhere 5.0. But the dbeng stopped working suddenly and the powerbuilder application send me unable to connect to database server.... is there any way to prev...
Hi All.
I am using PowerBuilder 2025. Where can I download a copy of the PFCs?
Thanks,
Dwight N.
Errors using CURSOR with ADO.NET Oracle Connection
- Resolved
- How-to
- Last updated 2 months ago
- Toan Nguyen replied 2 months ago
Hello All,I have PB applications written in PB2022R3 3397. The applications use native driver to connect to Oracle database and work great.To support MFA authentication requirement, we have to switch to ADO.NET driver to connect to Oracle database.I ...
Hi Everyone;
FYI: I just released a new version of the STD Framework, version 2026 R3: https://www.powerbuilder.eu/powerbuilder-blog/703-std-framework-2026-r3-powerbuilder-2025-r2
The reason though for this post is to solicit feedback for the nex...
Objects are Missing from the Application after Migration PB2019 R3 to PB2025 R2
- Resolved
- Issue
- Last updated 2 months ago
- Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 2 months ago
HI,when I migrate my PowerBuilder 2019 R3 application to PowerBuilder 2025 R2 I found that some user objects, some data windows, some windows and even some pb scripts are missing from some objects. So, my questions are -1. Is it expected behaviour wh...
Problem sending SMTP email with 2-factor turned on
- Advice
- Last updated 2 months ago
- Bruce Armstrong replied 2 months ago
My customer wants to use 2-factor authentication because of an email problem. When I turn it on for me. I get the following error:
535.5.7.139 Authentication unsuccessful, the request did not meet the criteria to be authenticated successfully.
It u...
Request for Update on PB 2022 R3 .NET 10 Support Maintenance Pack
- Resolved
- Advice
- Last updated 2 months ago
- Matthias Bull replied 2 months ago
In the following discussion:
https://community.appeon.com/index.php/qna/q-a/request-for-updated-net-windows-desktop-runtime-support-in-powerbuilder#reply-66646
Armeen Mazda @Appeon stated:
"We will release a maintenance pack for PB 2022 R3 that wi...
Best way to delete a PBL in a Git environment?
- How-to
- Last updated 3 months ago
- Luc Railhac replied 2 months ago
Hi,
What is the best way to delete an entire PBL on a single branch (while keeping it on the others) in a Git environment?
When you right-click on a PBL, PB offers two options: Delete and Remove Library. What is the difference between the two?
We ...
Tab object background color issues when using themes in Powerbuilder
- Resolved
- Issue
- Last updated 2 months ago
- Buck Woolley replied 2 months ago
I have discovered an issue creating a tab object on a window using themes. If the width of the tab is 6980 pb units or wider then the background of the tab changes after 6980 units. In development a tab with transparent background is placed over a st...
very minor IDE display issue in project painter
- Issue
- Last updated 2 months ago
- Andreas Mykonios replied 2 months ago
the deploy and 1 other (security maybe) panes will have the text obscured if the left pane is too wide. the others are ok (build for example), but deploy and the other one will be.
this is the powerserver project painter
25R2
windows 11
yes, ...
Video Player on PB 2019 R3 build 2670
- Resolved
- How-to
- Last updated 3 months ago
- Pbuser15 Ateikon replied 2 months ago
Hi everyone,I want to play videos on a powerbuilder app.The video will may be sent as a Blob format coming form an APi or could be in a "physical" format (.MP4 or similar).
I treid with the OLE object that uses WIndows Media Player, but id doesn't s...
PowerBuilder 2019 too slow after installing 2025
- How-to
- Last updated 2 months ago
- Naye VERGARA replied 2 months ago
I have 2019 version and thought I was having issue so I tried installing 2025 version. After that whatever I open in 2019 loads too long as if I'm waiting for nothing. I notice in the 2025 version that it is about selecting 32bit instead of 64bit...M...
HTML / webpage question - javascript
- How-to
- Last updated 2 months ago
- Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 2 months ago
Using PB2025 built 3726
we have a small application that scans some webpages for particular content using the inet object and geturl function.
this works just fine , unless there are some javascript functions being called on the html page.
then th...
pb2025 r2 - 64bit or 32bit
- How-to
- Last updated 2 months ago
- David Peace -Consulting Partner Powersoft replied 2 months ago
Hi,
I asked a question about updating from pb2019 to pb2025 r2 yesterday. Thank you for you replies as always the support is brilliant.
As i am going to be moving the application to 2025 R2 should i just also move to 64 bit, i never put my 2019 i...
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