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SAP PowerDesigner

Create a resource based on the SAP PowerDesigner resource type to extract metadata from an SAP PowerDesigner data source. You need to specify the connection details when you configure the resource.

Objects Extracted

Enterprise Data Catalog extracts metadata from the following objects in an SAP PowerDesigner data source:
Note: * indicates the objects for which the resource extracts lineage information.

Resource Connection Properties

The following table describes the resource connection properties:
Property
Description
Agent URL
URL to the Enterprise Data Catalog agent that runs on a Microsoft Windows Server.
SAP PowerDesigner Model Type
The PowerDesigner version used to create the Physical Data Modeling (PDM) files.
Remove Binary Characters
Removes binary characters from the PDM file before the file is parsed.
Import UDPs
The resource does not support this option in the current version of Enterprise Data Catalog.
Append Volumetric Information
Imports the value for the number of occurrences of an object and append the information to the description property of an object.
Remove RTF
Removes Rich Text Formatting (RTF) from annotations.
Reverse Role Names
Reverses the role names for each relationship in the model.
Auto Assign Connections
Automatically assigns connections to the resource.
File
Select the PDM file that includes the data model from where you want to import metadata.
The following table describes the Additional and Advanced properties for source metadata settings on the Metadata Load Settings tab:
Property
Description
Enable Source Metadata
Extracts metadata from the data source.
Memory
The memory required to run a scanner job.
Specify one of the following memory values:
  • - Low
  • - Medium
  • - High
Note: For more information about the memory values, see the Tuning Enterprise Data Catalog Performance article on How To-Library Articles tab in the Informatica Doc Portal
JVM Options
JVM parameters that you can set to configure scanner container. Use the following arguments to configure the parameters:
  • - Dscannerloglevel=<DEBUG/INFO/ERROR>. Changes the log level of scanner to specific values, such as DEBUG, ERROR, or INFO. Default value is INFO.
  • - Dscanner.container.core=<No. of core>. Increases the core for the scanner container. The value must be a number.
  • - Dscanner.yarn.app.environment=<key=value>. Key pair value that you need to set in the Yarn environment. Use a comma to separate multiple key-pair values.
  • - Dscanner.pmem.enabled.container.memory.jvm.memory.ratio=<1.0/2.0>. Increases the scanner container memory when pmem is enabled. Default value is 1.
  • - -DINFA_TRUSTSTORE=<trust store path>. Path to the Informatica truststore file.
  • - -DINFA_TRUSTSTORE_PASSWORD=<trust store encrypted key>. Encrypted truststore password.
Track Data Source Changes
View metadata source change notifications in Enterprise Data Catalog.