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Q&A Forum Tip: Including Source Code in Your Question
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- Last updated 4 years ago
- Manuel Rivera replied 3 weeks ago
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...
            Please Update Your Queries With The Solution
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- Last updated 4 years ago
- Olan Knight replied 4 years ago
Saw this and thought it was perfect. Note the angry mob in the background on panel 4.   :) 
            PowerBuilder 2017R3 MR#1951 installation asks for data3.cab
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- Issue
- Last updated 4 years ago
- Miguel Leeuwe replied 4 years ago
Hello,
When I run setup.exe from downloaded and unpacked PWRBLDR-2017R3LTS-MR10-1951-EN.zip, it asks to insert disk 0 that contains the file data3.cab (I wanted to insert an image but couldn't figure out how to do it here). From what I see, there is...
                    
            .NET Datastore retrieve and subsequent SqlExecutor call to use same connection
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- How-to
- Last updated 4 years ago
- Dan Harrel replied 4 years ago
I am having an interesting problem writing a .NET Core 3.1 API using SnapObjects to connect to SQL Anywhere via ODBC.  The problem has to do with when database connections are made and released. 
The SQL Anywhere database I am using has long been in...
                    
            We migrated our 2017 R2 code to 2019 R3 but the application exe generated in PB 2019 R3 is being deleted by Symantec anti-virus.
There was no issue while installing 2019 R3, but when the migrated code is built in 2019 R3, that exe is being deleted b...
            Problema con el servicio de resize de la pfcs
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- How-to
- Last updated 4 years ago
- Cecilia Jiménez Bedoya replied 4 years ago
Hola!!. Tengo un problema con el servicio de resize de las pfcs. Hasta ahora lo hemos estado utilizando en nuestros aplicativos sin ningún tipo de problemas. Ahora necesito crear una aplicación que tiene un custom MDI frame ya que quiero poner una ba...
            How to get mail messages via SMTP in PB2019?
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- Last updated 4 years ago
- Miguel Leeuwe replied 4 years ago
I downloaded Roland Smith's emailSMTP utility and was able to utilize a couple objects (n_winsock and n_smtp) in our application for the sending of emails using SMTP. 
However, I also need to get messages from our mail sever and process those.  Is t...
                    
            SYSTEM TREE no longer shows workspace or targets
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- Last updated 4 years ago
- Olan Knight replied 4 years ago
I uninstalled PB2019R2.I installed PB2019R3.I migrated my code, and it worked cleanly.I then got the DLLs out of the bug fix folder 19.2.0.2670_DLL and copied them into my C drive, on top of their respective files. Specifically, the DLLs copied were ...
            How can I get my SYSTEM TREE restored?
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- Last updated 4 years ago
- Olan Knight replied 4 years ago
PB2019R3, b2670Windows 64 bit platformSomehow, I've lost the WORKSPACE view in the system tree. Instead, I have a disk drive view:
 
HOW CAN I GET MY WORKSPACE VIEW RESTORED????This is what it should look like:
Thank you!
 
            Which runtime DLL is required for PrintGetPrinter & PrintSetPrinter?
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- Last updated 4 years ago
- Olan Knight replied 4 years ago
PB2019R3Windows 10, 64 bit platform
 
We have a utility that's a relatively small piece of code that does NOT use the PFC. In the code, we call PrintGetPrinter and PrintSetPrinter.On the production VM, this works perfectly. On my brand new test VM,...
            Mismatch between retrieve columns and fetch columns
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- Last updated 4 years ago
- Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 4 years ago
I'm getting the "Mismatch between retrieve columns and fetch columns" error when calling a sql server proc with output parm. These are the particulars:
PB 2017 R2
See attached for SQL Server specs
It's important to note that the PB app has other s...
            Mismatch between retrieve columns and fetch columns after PB migration
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- Issue
- Last updated 4 years ago
- Pete Yankovich replied 4 years ago
I just migrated a PB app from 8.0 to 2019 R2 with no errors. We are also moving from Sql Server 2008 to 2016. When testing the application against Sql Server 2016, I get the sqlca error "Mismatch between retrieve columns and fetch columns" on the fir...
            Issue with reading large value using PowerBuilder SQLDA.GetDynamicString()
- How-to
- Last updated 4 years ago
- Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 4 years ago
Hello,
We are facing issue with  SQLDA.GetDynamicString().
We are creating dynamic SQL and trying to read a value from a string 'ls_input' ( 30000 characters) but  SQLDA.GetDynamicString() is giving us only 16385 characters. 
 
Sample code: 
Str...
                    
            Transaction ADO.NET Provider String
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- How-to
- Last updated 4 years ago
- Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 4 years ago
Dear Team,
 
We are working on using Transaction for ADO.NET to connect Sybase database.
Could  you guide us how to set up the DBParam for connection maximum number for Sybase?
ProviderString='value'The MaxConnect don't support ADO.NET with below...
                    
            Hello,
today, I´ve run in an error, while using the PB19-Compiler (pbc190.exe) with Jenkins.
Everytime i try to run this command:
pbc190.exe /d "C:\Projekte\CLI-Build-Test\TestApp2\testapp2.pbt" /o "C:\Projekte\executable\testapp2.exe" /pd n 
via...
                    
            RibbonBar - how to trigger the menu on a LargeButton to dropdown
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- How-to
- Last updated 4 years ago
- Steen Jakobsen replied 4 years ago
Hi my great fellow PB-champs :-)
 
Does anyone know if it is possible to trigger the dropdown menu associated with at "LargeButton" to dropdown from a script (programmatically). 
I'm using 2019R3
(I want to do that because the used needs to make ...
                    
            IDE custom toolbar buttons - pass pbw or pbt via command line?
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- How-to
- Last updated 4 years ago
- Roland Smith replied 4 years ago
You can add a custom icon to the PowerBuilder IDE toolbar, and one option is to specify in the "Command Line" a path to launch a separate executable.
I'd like to create toolbar buttons that launch small custom utilities which operate against the cur...
            Check embedded SQL when doing a full build
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- Last updated 4 years ago
- Markus Schröder replied 4 years ago
Hello,
when i do a full build of my workspace, Powerbuilder sends the embedded sql commands to the database.
Does Powerbuilder display incorrect sql statements anywhere? (in a postgres database i can see the incorrect statemants in a database logfi...
                    
            Can't find PBORA190.dll anywhere after installation
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- How-to
- Last updated 4 years ago
- Tracy Huang @Appeon replied 4 years ago
Hey folks,
I just installed PB2019 R3, Build 2670.  Migrated an app from PB2017 R2.  The only reason for the 2019 upgrade is because we're moving to Oracle v19 databases.  Wanted to get the app migrated before the DB upgrade.  
I've searched high a...
                    
            Original DateTime Value Changing When Importing Json
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- Issue
- Last updated 4 years ago
- Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 4 years ago
PB2019 R2 Build 2353, SQL Server 2014
 
There seems to be a problem with the ImportJson() function and DateTime/Time columns. If I export a JSON from a datastore and import it into a different datastore (same datawindow object), the current value b...
            PFC classes for pb 2019 R3
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- Advice
- Last updated 4 years ago
- Miguel Leeuwe replied 4 years ago
To anyone who is using the PFC classes for pb 2019:
Bruce has updated (today) the downloadable ZIP file with the latest changes.
The changes were in "ws_objects" but not yet in the ZIP.
These changes mean that - if you rely on the PBDOM included i...
            MS OLE DB driver - deploying connection strings
- How-to
- Last updated 4 years ago
- Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 4 years ago
We've been using the old SQL Server ODBC driver (SQLSRV32) for a long, long time now, and now it's finally time to update to a new driver. We originally looked at replacing it with the ODBC Driver 17 and that seems to work well and supports all the m...
                    
            
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