Meta Integration® Model Bridge (MIMB)
"Metadata Integration" Solution

MIMB Bridge Documentation

MIMB Import Bridge from Oracle Designer

Bridge Specifications

Vendor Oracle
Tool Name Oracle Designer
Tool Version 1.3.2, 2.1.2, 6.0, 6i to 10g
Tool Web Site http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/designer/index.html
Supported Methodology [Data Modeling] Multi-Model, Data Store (Physical Data Model, Logical Data Model) via DAT File

SPECIFICATIONS
Tool: Oracle / Oracle Designer version 1.3.2, 2.1.2, 6.0, 6i to 10g via DAT File
See http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/designer/index.html
Metadata: [Data Modeling] Multi-Model, Data Store (Physical Data Model, Logical Data Model)
Component: OracleDesigner version 11.2.0

OVERVIEW
This bridge imports data models from an Oracle Designer .DAT file. A .DAT file may contain:
- an E/R Model with entities, attributes, domains, relationships and diagrams
- a Server Model with tables, columns, data types, PK/FK and diagrams
- one or more Database Implementation Models with table implementation specifications.

REQUIREMENTS
n/a

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
n/a

LIMITATIONS
Refer to the current general known limitations at http://metaintegration.com/Products/MIMB/MIMBKnownLimitations.html or bundled in Documentation/ReadMe/MIMBKnownLimitations.html

This bridge does not support Database Implementation models.

SUPPORT
Provide a troubleshooting package with debug log. Debug log can be set in the UI or in conf/conf.properties with MIR_LOG_LEVEL=6


Bridge Parameters

Parameter Name Description Type Values Default Scope
File .DAT file produed by Oracle Designer. It is usually recommended to export a complete Application System, so that the produced DAT file is complete and does not contained references to objects not defined in the file. Alternatively, you can also select a set of individual entities or tables in the repository tree to be exported to the DAT file. However, you should not export diagram objects, since the produced DAT file will not contain the definition of the metadata objects, but only the diagram graphical information.

This bridge will use the generated DAT file as input.

'Oracle Designer 10g'

1. Start the Repository Object Navigator tool by clicking on the Navigator icon.
2. Select the metadata objects to export.

'Oracle Designer 6i & 9i'

1. Select 'Export' under the 'Utilities' menu
2. Select 'Export data to a text file' and click on 'Next'.
3. Select the object you want to export (the loaded model is selected by default) and click on 'Next'.
4. Type the name of the file you want to export to or browse to select it and click on 'Finish'.

'Oracle Designer 2000'

1. Select the set of Entities you want to export from Designer 2000.
2. Choose 'Unload' from the 'File' menu (Designer 2000 1.3.2) or from the 'Utilities' menu (Designer 2000 2.1.2).
3. Browse to your file save directory and enter the file name for the model you are saving.
4. Click 'Save'.
5. Click 'Ok' when the processing is finished.
FILE *.dat   Mandatory
Model selection Model to import.

Only use when the import contains both an E/R Model and a Server Model. If your import only contains one or the other this parameter is ignored.

'E/R Model'
Only the E/R Model is imported.

'Server Model'
Only the Server Model is imported.

'E/R Model and Server Model'
Both the E/R Model and Server Model are imported as separate models.
ENUMERATED
E/R Model
Server Model
E/R Model and Server Model
E/R Model  
Import UDPs A User Defined Property (UDP) is usually defined with a property definition object that has a default value. The objects that the property applies to may have an explicit value for this property. They may instead have no value assigned at all in which case the default value of the property definition (implicit value) applies.

Control how property definitions and values are imported:

'As metadata'
Import the explicit value as the property value. Implicit values are not imported. The default value is kept on the property type only.

'As metadata, migrate default values'
Import the explicit or implicit values as property value.

'In description, migrate default values'
Append the property name and value, even if implicit, to the object's description property. This allows you to export the UDP values to another tool which does not support the notion of UDP.

'Both, migrate default values'
Import the UDP value, even if implicit, both as metadata and in the object's description.
ENUMERATED
As metadata
As metadata, migrate default values
In description, migrate default values
Both, migrate default values
As metadata  
Insert the description in the comment field Insert the Description in the Comment property for all objects. BOOLEAN   False  
Encoding Specifies the character set encoding of the model to be imported.

If there are multiple choices for a language, the actual encoding will be indicated between parentheses.
ENUMERATED
Central and Eastern European (ISO-8859-2)
Central and Eastern European (Windows-1250)
Chinese Traditional (Big5)
Chinese Simplified (GB18030)
Chinese Simplified (GB2312)
Cyrillic (ISO-8859-5)
Cyrillic (Windows-1251)
DOS (IBM-850)
Greek (ISO-8859-7)
Greek (Windows-1253)
Hebrew (ISO-8859-8)
Hebrew (Windows-1255)
Japanese (Shift_JIS)
Korean (KS_C_5601-1987)
Thai (TIS620)
Thai (Windows-874)
Turkish (ISO-8859-9)
Turkish (Windows-1254)
UTF 8 (UTF-8)
UTF 16 (UTF-16)
Western European (ISO-8859-1)
Western European (ISO-8859-15)
Western European (Windows-1252)
Locale encoding
No encoding conversion
windows-1252  

 

Bridge Mapping

Meta Integration Repository (MIR)
Metamodel
(based on the OMG CWM standard)
"Oracle Designer"
Metamodel
OracleDesigner
Mapping Comments
     
Association Relationship, Relationship Ends/Foreign Key an association is created for each foreign key found in the model
Aggregation   True if one of the role is part of a unique identifier (UIE). True if the foreign key columns are part of the primary key
DesignLevel   default if the model contains only logical or only physical information. If the model contains both levels, this property is set accordingly for each object.
Name Foreign key name default for logical
AssociationRole Relationship, Relationship Ends/Foreign Key  
Description Description  
DesignLevel   default if the model contains only logical or only physical information. If the model contains both levels, this property is set accordingly for each object.
Multiplicity Minimum Cardinality, Maximum Cardinality  
Name Relationship End Name  
Source   Based on the direction of creation, multiplicity of each role and if one end is part of a unique identifer. Set to True for the parent role (physical level)
AssociationRoleNameMap Relationship Ends/Foreign Key columns The association between the primary key attribute and the foreign key attribute. Name mapping between a foreign key column and its associated primary key column (Physical level)
DesignLevel   default if the model contains only logical or only physical information. If the model contains both levels, this property is set accordingly for each object.
Attribute Attribute/Column see DerivedType for the attribute's datatype information mapping
Comment Comment  
Description Description  
DesignLevel   default if the model contains only logical or only physical information. If the model contains both levels, this property is set accordingly for each object.
InitialValue Default Value  
Name Name  
Optional Optional  
PhysicalName Name  
Position Sequence Number  
BaseType Attribute Format/Column Format  
DataType Format See datatype conversion array
DesignLevel   default if the model contains only logical or only physical information. If the model contains both levels, this property is set accordingly for each object.
Name Name  
CandidateKey Unique Identifier/Unique Key, Primary Key Primary UID Flag indicates a primary key
Description Description  
DesignLevel   default if the model contains only logical or only physical information. If the model contains both levels, this property is set accordingly for each object.
Name Name  
PhysicalName Name  
UniqueKey   set to True
Class Entity/Table  
CppClassType   Set to ENTITY
CppPersistent   Set to True
Description Description  
DesignLevel   default if the model contains only logical or only physical information. If the model contains both levels, this property is set accordingly for each object.
DimensionalRole DataWarehouse Type  
Name Name  
PhysicalName Short Name/Name  
ClassDiagram Entity Relationship Diagram/Server Model Diagram, Data Structure Diagram  
Description Description  
DesignLevel   default if the model contains only logical or only physical information. If the model contains both levels, this property is set accordingly for each object.
Name Title  
PhysicalName Name  
DatabaseSchema   No equivalent in Oracle Designer ER Modeling (Logical level)
DerivedType Domain, Attribute Datatype, Allowable Values  
Comment Comment  
DataType Format See datatype conversion array
Description Description  
DesignLevel   default if the model contains only logical or only physical information. If the model contains both levels, this property is set accordingly for each object.
InitialValue Default Value  
Length Maximum Length  
LowerBound Allowable Values : Low Value  
Name Name  
PhysicalName Name / Datatype  
Scale Decimal Places  
UpperBound Allowable Values : High Value  
UserDefined   True for Domain
DesignPackage Folder Folders are not mapped into packages since this notion is only supported since version 6i. A package (Logical View) is created to contain the logical information.
DesignLevel   default if the model contains only logical or only physical information. If the model contains both levels, this property is set accordingly for each object.
UserDefined   set to False
ForeignKey Foreign Key Generated for associations (logical level)
Description Description default for logical level
DesignLevel   default if the model contains only logical or only physical information. If the model contains both levels, this property is set accordingly for each object.
Name Name default for logical level
PhysicalName Name default for logical level
Generalization Subtype  
DesignLevel   default if the model contains only logical or only physical information. If the model contains both levels, this property is set accordingly for each object.
GeneralizationRole Subtype  
Index Index Associated with each key for logical level
Comment Comment  
Description Description default for logical level
DesignLevel   default if the model contains only logical or only physical information. If the model contains both levels, this property is set accordingly for each object.
Name Name default for logical level
PhysicalName Name default for logical level
IndexMember Index entries Links each attribute in the key to the index associated to the key
Position Usage sequence / Sequence in key Computed
Note Notes  
PropertyElementTypeScope User Extensions  
Scope   Element Type the user defined property applies to
PropertyType User Defined Property, Extended Text Property  
DataType   set to MIR_DATATYPE_VARCHAR
DesignLevel   Inferred from the Designer object Element Type the property applies to
Name Property Name Display Name is not available in the file
PhysicalName   Not used
Usage   set to User
PropertyValue User Defined Property Value  
Value property value  
SQLViewAssociation View, Table No equivalent in Oracle Designer ER Modeling (Logical level). associations between views and tables (Physical level)
SQLViewAttribute View Column  
Comment Comment  
Description Description  
Name Prompt  
PhysicalName Name  
Position Sequence in Table  
SQLViewEntity View, Materialized View  
Comment Comment  
Description Description  
Name Display Title  
PhysicalName Name  
WhereClause Where / Validation condition  
StoreModel Application Systems, ER Model The model is built using the elements contained in the Oracle Designer DAT file
Comment Comment  
Description Description  
DesignLevel   default if the model contains only logical or only physical information. If the model contains both levels, this property is set accordingly for each object.
Name Title The application system's title or extracted from the file name.
PhysicalName Name The application system's name or extracted from the file name.
Trigger Trigger, PL/SQL Definition  
Description Description  
FireOnDelete Delete  
FireOnInsert Insert  
FireOnUpdate Update  
Name Name  
PhysicalName Name  
Semantics PL/SQL Definition  
TriggerType Execution Time  
TypeValue Allowable values  
DesignLevel   default if the model contains only logical or only physical information. If the model contains both levels, this property is set accordingly for each object.
Name Meaning/Value  
Position RadioSequence, Display Sequence  
Value Value  

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