Migrating powerbuilder 6 program to powerbuilder 10.5

Question

Hey, I was just wondering if anyone knows a good way to go about taking a program made in powerbuilder 6 and converting it to powerbuilder 10.5

Any suggestions?

Answer 1

Run the Migration assistant in 10.5 and see what it thinks of your code. Main thing to look out for going from 6 to 10.x is the switch to Unicode. Migration will handle most of it, but if you're calling external functions you'll have to tweak them. I think the Migration Assistant flags them.

Migration's been covered here a couple times. See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/164297/how-to-upgrade-powerbuilder-code and http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3123941/migrating-from-powerbuilder-6-5-to-10-5 .

Answer 2

Also, if your program is based on PFC, you will need to DL a newer version of the PFC from http://www.sybase.com/detail?id=1058501 there is a sub project for the open source PFC.