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
- 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.