PowerDesigner v16.5 SP03 includes new features for the Physical Data
Model (PDM).
SAP BusinessObjects Universe Reverse-Engineering
PowerDesigner reverse-engineering SAP BusinessObjects universes to provide a full
round-trip solution for modeling your universes.
Documented in:
- Data Modeling > Building Data Models > Generating and Reverse-Engineering
Databases
SAP Business Suite Import Enhancements
PowerDesigner now supports searching the SAP Business Suite
application component and package hierarchies to select items to import, and you can
now choose to not generate empty packages when generating and exporting a HANA table
structure.
Documented in:
- Data Modeling > DBMS Definition
Reference > SAP Business Suite
New or Enhanced DBMS Support
The following DBMS versions are added:
- SAP HANA® v1.0 SP7
- SAP® Sybase® Adaptive
Server® Enterprise v16
- Oracle 11gR2 (in the Oracle 11g DBMS definition file) and
Oracle 12c
- Oracle database package Specification tab and
round-trip reverse-engineering and generation of the specification.
- Microsoft SQL Server 2012 - Column Store Index support
Documented in:
- Data Modeling
> DBMS Definition Reference