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The Novalys company has just launched a new version of Visual Expert, a tool that automates impact analysis, generates source code documentation and checks code quality. The new Visual Expert version 5.7 analyzes both PowerBuilder and related Stored Procedure code (Sybase ASE, Oracle a...
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In ASE 12.0 we introduced official file system device support via the device-level dsync flag. Since then, many a DBA has pondered 'to dsync, or not to dsync?' This tends to be part of the larger question of file versus raw. Like just about anything related to performance, there is not...
Text messaging is cool. Voice messaging is even cooler. Wouldn't it be great to be able to add that functionality to your PowerBuilder apps as well? For example, when an event occurs within your application, let your users receive real-time notification via SMS or voice messaging to th...
Sybase ASE 15 supports the use of many optimization techniques and tools. The use of these tools requires an expert level of understanding since improper application of query optimization tools can degrade performance for ASE as a whole. In this excerpt, the following optimization tech...
Profit Tools is able to rapidly create an affordable, full-function, extensible and scalable solution that has been enthusiastically embraced by small to mid-sized commercial trucking companies. Nearly 200 companies have implemented Profit Tools; these customers are realizing significa...
Today nearly every organization relies on some form of information technology. Companies of all sizes are increasingly dependent upon computer systems and networks to enable a wide range of critical business processes. It follows that companies are allocating increasing amounts of thei...
Pick up any book or article on Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and somewhere in the text will be the statement that SOA isn't about throwing away existing systems and redeveloping them, but integrating them into new SOA processes, SOA processes that are flexible enough to change th...
This article will talk first about what constitutes a .NET Smart Client, its attributes, its behaviors, and then we'll talk about how the Intelligent Updater feature fits into PowerBuilder 11's .NET Smart Client support initiative. Finally, we'll walk through a detailed tutorial on how...
Natexis Bleichroeder, Inc., a subsidiary of Natexis Banques Populaires, is a specialized investment bank based in New York with offices in several other U.S. cities and affiliates in London and Paris. The firm specializes in global equity sales, trading, and capital markets activities,...
Over the past year, I've been discussing some of the various technologies found inside SQL Server 2005. Three of these technologies are CLR integration, HTTP endpoints, and Service Broker. (Articles on these topics were published, respectively, in the November 2005, March 2006, and Nov...
DataWindow display formats aren't a big secret. Most PowerBuilder developers use them to format numeric, date, time, and string values properly. Such display formats are usually straightforward and contain characters that have special meaning for a specific datatype like '#' for numeri...
Over the years we've been offered, either by Sybase or by third-party companies, a number of 'move PowerBuilder to the Web' offerings. Focusing specifically on those offered by Sybase, we were first offered Web.pb. It was provided as a set of libraries with PowerBuilder 6 that was buil...
By now, you've probably heard about Eclipse as 'the Open Source Java IDE' (www.eclipse.org). Today, several companies have looked past the Java IDE plug-ins provided as part of Eclipse, and are creating products that use Eclipse as a tool integration platform, both inside and outside o...
Companies are under tremendous pressure to meet the complex business requirements found in their IT infrastructures. For example, they need to expose their applications to external trading partners, comply with government regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley, integrate merged companies o...
When building the right project team to complete a custom solution there are many forces at work. These include business drivers, technical drivers, and organizational and political motivations. Regardless of the business or organization there are three basic rules to follow in buildin...
Founded in 1982 as a spin-off of the University of Ghent, Belgium, Bayer BioScience is one of the main innovation and research centers for Bayer CropScience. It is now a division of the multinational chemical, medical, and biotechnology concern Bayer AG. With its frequent mergers and a...
In my last few articles I have tried to show how to build Business Processes (BPs) and how to use them with PowerBuilder. This article will cover how to build a simple JSF within Sybase WorkSpace to call those BPs. My engineering colleague Jean Choi wrote recently about Web application...
The Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is the largest trust in the UK. It provides acute services for the population of Leeds and is a regional center for the treatment of illnesses such as cancer and heart disease. The Trust employs more than 15,000 staff across eight sites and treats...
In today's world of network computers our important documents are usually widely dispersed on several computers in our networks. Over a period of time, we forget their location and searching for these files on a huge network turns out to be a frustrating experience. Such searches are t...
What made Web application development initially so successful was that Web applications looked pretty. They usually included graphics made by graphic design experts. What makes them so unsuccessful nowadays is that they provide a very poor user interface. End users understood that bein...
(OK, let me start off by acknowledging that in the literary work I am alluding to, Juliet is not asking this question because she's looking for Romeo. She's actually lamenting that he comes from the rival family. But it's so commonly misunderstood that I thought it would be useful none...
Did you ever wonder where your kids are driving around on a Saturday night? Perhaps you are a business owner and need to know where your workforce is located on different job sites. With the help of PowerBuilder, a wireless connection, a GPS receiver, and Microsoft MapPoint, you can tr...
Distribution of data is the physical storage of data in different locations with access provided to the necessary data regardless of its location. Sometimes data is distributed for historical reasons; for example, when separate applications use different software and hardware. Sometime...
At the end of each year, when SYS-CON informally polls its globe-girdling network of software developers, industry executives, commentators, investors, writers, and editors, our question is always the same: where's the industry going next year?
Like Java and C# programmers, PowerBuilder developers can create properties via the undocumented keyword indirect. Properties look like ordinary variables, only their value isn't accessed directly. When you declare a variable using indirect, you have to specify a function that's called...
About this time of year folks make their predictions about what's coming up in the New Year. Not to be left out, here's mine, along with my thoughts on what these events will mean for you.
In this article I want to show you how easy it is to use the new Avaki perspective and what you can achieve in the areas of Data Federation and Integration. This feature is newly available within Sybase WorkSpace v1.6 and integrated into the Workbench IDE (Integrated Development Enviro...
A typical PowerBuilder application has a few zillion MessageBox() calls. This article explains how you can roll your own MessageBox() function, replacing the native PowerBuilder MB() function with your code.
New features of this release include the DataWindow Designer Visual Studio Plug-in. This is a set of plug-ins for Microsoft Visual Studio 2005. It enables users to design DataWindow objects directly in Visual Studio instead of in the standalone DataWindow Designer from the previous ver...
At the end of each year, when SYS-CON informally polls its globe-girdling network of software developers, industry executives, commentators, investors, writers, and editors, our question is always the same: where's the industry going next year?
New Zealand's Industry Training Organizations (ITOs) went to market for a new trainee administration system based on an industry-standard database technology. Virtuosity, a provider of both custom and industry-specific software and hardware support and its Titan trainee administration ...
Sybase's exciting new offering, WorkSpace, offers users an enormous amount of functionality in a unified design and development environment. From enterprise modeling, database development, Web application development, services-oriented development and orchestration to mobile developmen...
Many developers tell me they have to move their PowerBuilder client/server applications to the Web to deploy them on their intranet. In most cases, this is not useful. It just seems that the marketing people at Microsoft did such a good job we're forgetting that we don't need Web techn...
In my last article I showed you how to expose a PowerBuilder component on an EAServer as a Web Service that could then be orchestrated into a Business Process Service in Unwired Orchestrator with Sybase WorkSpace. In this article I want to attack the big picture from another angle, the...
XML is becoming the standard for data exchange. More and more software products and technologies are being built on top of it. Even the newest buzz word in Internet programming- AJAX - is related to XML. The good news is that .NET framework provides a very powerful API for manipulating...
