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About the SAP PowerDesigner catalog source

You can use the SAP PowerDesigner catalog source to extract metadata from an SAP PowerDesigner source system.

SAP PowerDesigner is a collaborative enterprise data modeling tool that enables enterprises to visualize, analyze, and manipulate metadata for effective enterprise information architecture.

Extracted metadata

You can extract specific metadata from source systems that you connect to with an SAP PowerDesigner catalog source.

Objects extracted

Metadata Command Center extracts the following metadata from an SAP PowerDesigner source system:

•Association
•Business Rule
•Column
•Condition
•Database
•Default
•Dimension
•Dimension Attribute
•Domain
•Extended Attribute
•Extended Attributes
•Fact
•Fact Attribute
•Foreign Key
•Hierarchy
•Index
•Key
•Measure
•Multidimensional Diagram
•Named RelationEnd
•Package
•Physical Data Model
•Physical Diagram
•Primary Key
•Procedure
•Reference
•Schema
•Sequence
•Synonym
•Table
•Trigger
•Type Value
•Unnamed RelationEnd
•User
•View
•View Column
•View Reference