InfoSphere Data Architect is a comprehensive
development environment for data modeling, relating and integrating data assets,
and developing database applications. The product is built on Eclipse, which
is an open-source platform for creating application development tools.
InfoSphere Data Architect provides the following
features:
- Logical, physical, storage, domain, and integration data modeling
- Visual modeling through information engineering (IE) data diagrams and
topology diagrams
- Validation for models and deployed databases including naming standard,
syntax and compliance, normalization, and other best practice validation
- Lifecycle management functionality, including impact analysis across models
and extended comparison and synchronization functionality
- Team support, including support for partitioning, cross-model references,
and source code management system integration
- A unique mapping editor that helps you relate different data structures
to each other with discovery capabilities to detect relationships
- Database code designers for SQL statements, stored procedures, and user-defined
functions
- Support for running statements in the database
- Debugging support for DB2 stored procedures and user-defined functions
- Release notes
The release notes contain information
about what is new in this release, as well as last-minute updates and workarounds
that are not available in the information center.
- Tutorials and samples
The provided provides instructions and additional resources to learn
how to successfully accomplish specific tasks. Sample projects provide usable
samples with instructions for importing and modifying the samples. Tutorials
and samples are available in the information center or from the Welcome page.