PowerBuilder User Group Germany

These are my notes from the PowerBuilder User Group meeting in Walldorf Germany on December 3, 2013, originally posted on my personal blog site.

Robyn Chan - Senior Vice President - Head of Mobile Platform

Michael Redford - PMP Business Information Technology, Products and Innovation

PowerBuilder 15

• 32 and 64 bit support
• OData
• SQL 2012
• Oracle 12
• Windows 8
• .Net 4.5
• Dockable Windows

Beta builds are ready now, but access to it is still being figured out.

• PB 15+
  • Open APIs eg objects like ORCA, IDE infrastructure/painter, build process
  • Hana XSE support for PowerScript ( XSE is their JavaScript like app server language)
  • HANA Cloud (HEC, Neo AWS) and on premise options
• Evaluating
  • RDL (River Definition Language) support for PowerScript (intermediate layer, platform agnostic)
  • WebApp Toolkit for multi-channel development (internal name - not announced yet, web based IDE, AppDesigner, AppBuilder, the latter was developed by the PowerBuilder team to create mobile apps, SAP UI5 -- HTML5)
  • Client SDKs for NVOs - Typical PB app is 30% business logic in the client.  The audience thought it was a lot higher.

PowerBuilder.Net versus PowerBuilder Client

• Looking at trying to get into one IDE

Plan to support JavaScript in IDE

• Yes, that was what support for XSE was intended to convey

EAServer - what happened to NetWeaver integration

• Couldn't put on slide - Looking at migrating PASP to Netweaver - probably wouldn't focus on other app servers

What about support contracts

• That's one of the big questions they're working on.   The other is that existing SAP customers have an S-user account.  They're trying to figure out how to automatically give people S-user accounts so they can access the beta without going through the S-user creation process.