User, Group, and Role Checks (PDM)

PowerDesigner provides default model checks to verify the validity of users, groups, and roles.

Check

Description and Correction

Name/Code contains terms not in glossary

[if glossary enabled] Names and codes must contain only approved terms drawn from the glossary.
  • Manual correction - Modify the name or code to contain only glossary terms.
  • Automatic correction - None.

Name/Code contains synonyms of glossary terms

[if glossary enabled] Names and codes must not contain synonyms of glossary terms.
  • Manual correction - Modify the name or code to contain only glossary terms.
  • Automatic correction - Replaces synonyms with their associated glossary terms.

Name/Code uniqueness

Object names must be unique in the namespace.
  • Manual correction - Modify the duplicate name or code.
  • Automatic correction - Appends a number to the duplicate name or code.

Code maximum length

The code length is limited by the maximum length specified in the DBMS definition (MaxLen entry, in the Objects > User and Group categories).

  • Manual correction: Modify the code length to meet this requirement

  • Automatic correction: Truncates the code length to the maximum length specified in the DBMS definition

Existence of user

[groups, roles] A group is created to factorize privilege and permission granting to users. A group without user members is useless.

  • Manual correction: Add users to group or delete group

  • Automatic correction: Deletes unassigned group

Password empty

[users, groups] Users and groups must have a password to be able to connect to the database.

  • Manual correction: Define a password for the user or group

  • Automatic correction: None