Reverse Engineering for MobiLink

You can reverse engineer one or more existing MobiLink synchronization definitions into an ILM using a live database connection for each of the consolidated and remote databases.

  1. Open the Database Connection tab of each consolidated database property sheet linked to a MobiLink server, and specify the data source, login and password.
  2. Right-click a MobiLink server, and select Reverse Engineering. If you have not previously specified the data source, login and password for the remote database on the Database Connection tab of its property sheet, PowerDesigner asks you to specify them.

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    Select Tools > Reverse Engineering Replication Server , and select the MobiLink servers you want to reverse engineer from the Selection dialog box. For each remote database, PowerDesigner asks you to specify the data source, login and password on the Database Connection tab of its property sheet.

    Once the reverse engineering is over, PowerDesigner displays the Merge Models window to show the differences between the reverse engineered model and the current model. You can choose to accept or not the created or modified objects (for information about merging models, see the Comparing and Merging Models chapter in the Core Features Guide). The objects are added to your model, and are displayed in the diagram and in the Browser.


Created October 7, 2009. Send feedback on this help topic to Sybase Technical Publications: pubs@sybase.com