how do I rev. engineer a powerbuilder app. with powerdesigner?

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unknown

2007-09-18 21:42:28 UTC

I'm trying to evaluate this product for my employer and I
want to reverse engineer an application built in
powerbuilder. I don't have the source files, but I do have
the .pdb files. Is this enabled in the evaluation copy? If
so how do I generate the uml diagram?

unknown

2007-09-19 10:35:05 UTC

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I don't think PowerDesigner can reverse engineer from PDB files. You
need to get the source code. This is not an evaluation copy issue. My
full version doesn't have an option to read PDB files either.
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Post by unknown
I'm trying to evaluate this product for my employer and I
want to reverse engineer an application built in
powerbuilder. I don't have the source files, but I do have
the .pdb files. Is this enabled in the evaluation copy? If
so how do I generate the uml diagram?

Jim Egan

2007-09-19 20:06:20 UTC

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Ryan wrote...

I think you are going to need the .PBL files, not the .PBD files. But, you could try
renaming the suffix from .PBD to .PBL and giving that a try. I don't think it will work
but there have been tools that can extract from a .PBD file.

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Paul Horan[TeamSybase]

2007-09-19 21:07:55 UTC

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If you rename the PBD files to PBL files, you can re-engineer into a class
diagram, but you won't have any source code in the Implementation tabs of
the objects. You might get datawindow classes, but I can't verify this.
I'll give it a shot and report back here.

Paul Horan[TeamSybase]