Hi kids
As part of getting ready for Next Gen, we're planning on reviewing all of our customisations to see if we can retire any that are no longer used/ leftover early versions etc, so we don't have to bother migrating unneccessarily.
I'd like to be able to produce a table of infomaker reports and their associated stored procs from our local report pbls, so I can cross-check with the report list out of the tess report reference tables. (Yes, I know i should already have that list handy in our impeccable customisation documentation, but alas....)
So does anybody know of a tool that's available to pull that data out of a pbl? I've looked at PBL Peeper and libtool, but neither of those seem to be able to output the proc calls into a table - which is really frustrating in the case of PBL Peeper, because it can browse to them and display them, so it knows about them, but it won't export the critters, as far as I can see.
Any ideas?
Ken
Just in case anyone else is interested in the topic: I have found a tool that does a nice job of documenting the innards of pbl files.
It's called PBDoc, from www.pbdr.com. It's shareware.
It produces a number of outputs, which include
So far I can't make it export the xrefs in a useable format, but i can just copy and paste the list out into excel, do some manual wrangling, then import into a table and cross-link link to sys.objectsand gooesoft_report and so on, which is almost as good.
And better than manually cross-checking our 900-odd Infomaker objects, that's for sure.
K
PS (later) The xref lists are in fact accessible directly - via an xml file which is output as part of the documentation, and can simply be imported.
The latest version of this app doesn't work with our version of Infomaker. It says it can't open the pbl file.