PowerDesigner v16.0 includes new features for the Physical Data Model (PDM).
Sybase IQ Reference Architecture Sizing
PowerDesigner now provides a special EAM model to help you determine the architecture required to deploy a Sybase® IQ data warehouse solution to meet your anticipated workload. An advisor wizard generates architectures based on one or more hardware servers, and comparison tools help you choose the best architecture based on your requirements for cost and speed.
Documented in:
- Enterprise Architecture Modeling > Sybase IQ Reference Architecture Model
Customizable Data Type Mapping
When changing DBMS or generating one PDM from another, you can now specify mappings of data types down to the individual column level.
Documented in:
- Data Modeling > Working with Data Models > Generating Other Models from a Data Model > Generating Other Models from a PDM > Specifying Custom Data Type Mappings
New or Enhanced DBMS Support
The following DBMS versions are added or enhanced:
- DB2 UDB v9.7 for Common Server
- DB2 v10.x for z/OS
- Netezza v5.0
- MS Access 2007 and 2010
- MS SQL Server 2008 R2 (supported via the MS SQL Server 2008 DBMS definition file)
- Sybase Active Server Enterprise v15.7
Documented in:
- Data Modeling > DBMS Definition Reference