Using PBNative – PB Docs 2022

PowerBuilder also provides minimal in-the-box source control
through the PBNative check in/check out utility. PBNative allows you
to lock the current version of PowerBuilder objects and prevents
others from checking out these objects while you are working on them.
It provides minimal versioning functionality, and does not allow you
to add comments or labels to objects that you add or check in to the
PBNative project directory.

Connecting to PBNative

You connect to PBNative from PowerBuilder through the
PowerBuilder SCC API. You use the pop-up menu items to add, check out,
check in, or get the latest version of objects on the source control
server. However, any menu item that calls a source control management
tool is unavailable when you select PBNative as your source control
system.

Because there is no separate management tool for PBNative, if
you need to edit project PBG files that get out of sync, you can open
them directly on the server without checking them out of source
control.

For more information about PBG files, see Editing the PBG file for a source-controlled
target.

PRP files

PBNative creates files with an extra PRP extension for every
object registered in the server storage location. If an object with
the same file name (minus the additional extension) has been checked
out, a PRP file provides the user name of the person who has placed a
lock on the object. PRP files are created on the server, not in the
local path.

PowerBuilder also adds a version number to the PRP file for an
object in the PBNative archive directory when you register that object
with PBNative source control. PowerBuilder increments the version
number when you check in a new revision. The version number is visible
in the Show History dialog box that you open from the pop-up menu for
the object, or in the Library painter when you display the object
version numbers.

For more information on the Show History dialog box, see Displaying the source control version
history. For information on displaying the version number in
the Library painter, see Controlling columns
that display in the List view.