ISUG TECH Board of Directors 2019-2020 Term Nominations Period

Nominations can be made up through 5PM on December 3rd.

http://my.isug.com/blog/board-of-directors-2019-2020-term-nominations-period

Nominations can be made at:

http://my.isug.com/p/su/rd/survey=84ff36be-f2bd-11e8-b9e7-bc764e10c5fd

Current open positions are:

Vice President of FinanceVice President of MembershipCommunications DirectorSocial Media DirectorRegional Director - Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA)Regional Director - North America

The election will run from December 24th - 28th, 2016

Elevate 2018 Report

Summary

This was the second time that Appeon had hosted a PowerBuilder user conference on their own, and once again I thought it went extremely well, even better than the prior year.  As with the prior year, attendance was good and quite diverse.

PowerBuilder 2017 R3 New Feature: PostgreSQL enhancements

The support for PostgreSQL that was added in R2 was covered in an earlier blog post.  The enhancements in R3 are primarily related to addition entries added to the PBODB170.INI file.  These additional entries provide more support for maintaining tables, views, primary and foreign keys, users and groups in the database painter.

PowerBuilder 2017 R3 New Feature: Stand Alone Compiler Enhancements

In an article on the enhancements that were added to the stand alone compiler in R2, I remarked on an issue on how file version information was handled in the initial release, and which was still a problem in R2.  Fortunately, R3 corrects that issue.  In R3, there are now two additional command line arguments:

PowerBuilder 2017 R3 New Feature: SVN Enhancements

Support for using SVN as a source control system without going through a bridge product was added in 2017 R2 and covered in a previous blog post.  In this blog post we're going to look at the enhancements that were added to that feature in 2017 R3.

PowerBuilder 2017 R3 New Feature: Encryption

PowerBuilder 2017 R3 introduces support for encoding and encrypting data, something of particular interest when using REST web services.  We're going to take a look at those new features.

PowerBuilder 2017 R3 New Feature: OAuth

PowerBuilder 2017 R2 added a number of REST features, which I covered in a previous blog post.  One area for improvement on the original feature was better support for REST authentication methods.  The HTTPClient and RESTClient objects provided methods to set request headers, but doing the legwork needed for some of the more complex authentication mechanism (i.e., OAuth) were left to the developer.  PowerBuilder 2017 R3 addresses that.  In this blog post we'll look at using this new feature.