Migration Guidelines for PowerServer Web

Appeon® PowerServer® 2020

FOR WINDOWS & UNIX & LINUX

DOCUMENT ID: ADC37817-01-2020-01

LAST REVISED: January 14, 2021

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Table of Contents

Web RAD with PowerBuilder and PowerServer
Traditional approach to Web development
Advantages of PowerServer for Web RAD
Leveraged functionality with server components
PowerServer Web RAD methodology
PowerServer-standard PowerBuilder coding
Migration Process
Introduction
Installing required softwares
Understanding the general limitations of the PowerServer solution
Defining migration objective
Defining migration objective for non-PFC application
Defining migration objective for PFC application
Upgrading the original application
Upgrading obsolete PBLs
Upgrading PFC applications
Preparing the target application
Special processing required for PFC applications
Processing application based on migration objectives
Pre-configuring for the Web applications
Why is pre-configuration necessary
Four pre-configuration tasks
Modifying unsupported features
How to identify unsupported features
Feature modification methods
Enhancing the application with Web or PowerServer features
Trial deployments and debugging
Special deployment steps for distributed applications
Debugging deployed applications
Fine-tuning the runtime performance
Go-live deployment
Go live
Migration FAQ
How do I rapidly build a new Web application with PowerServer?
Does PowerServer support every PowerBuilder feature?
Do PowerServer-deployed Web applications support external resources?
Why classify my application into types?
What are the different application types?
What are the recommendations for converting the different application types?
What are the basic requirements for rewriting complex applications?
When would I need to modularize my application?
What are the benefits of modularizing my application?
What are the basic principles for modularizing an application?
Can you give an example of the modularization process?
Enhancing an application with Web or PowerServer features
PowerServer open interfaces
Description of the open interfaces
Applying PowerServer open interfaces in PowerServer-deployed applications
Appeon client functions
Description of Appeon client functions
Using Appeon Client functions
Loading an application in SAP Sybase Enterprise Portal
Restrictions on supporting Enterprise Portal
Tasks required to load the application in Enterprise Portal
Single sign-on
Integrating PowerServer Web applications with JSP/ASP
Processing PFC Applications
Auto-Sensing Environment
Suggested Modifications to PFC
Unsupported user objects
Unsupported standard class objects
Unsupported object properties
Unsupported object functions
Unsupported object events
Unsupported system functions
Unsupported Shared variables
Unsupported Function not found
Unsupported calls
Differently behaved features
Migration Tutorial
Introduction
Preparing for the tutorial
Relevant files
Loading the Tutorial PowerBuilder Application
Creating a Workspace
Loading the tutorial PBL file
Configuring ODBC data source
Running the tutorial application
Configuring PowerServer Toolkit
Configuring basic settings
Selecting PBL file(s)
Configuring deployment settings
Selecting DB Type(s)
Declaring transaction object(s)
Analyzing Unsupported Features
Unsupported features analysis
Optimizing and full build
Deploying the Tutorial PowerBuilder Application
Running the Web Application