Opening a V6 PAM into a CDM

You can open a v6 process analyst model (PAM) into a CDM, to recover process modeling information, as follows:

PAM object

CDM object

Business rule

Business rule

Domain

Domain

Data store

Entity

Data item

Data item

You can recover processes from a PAM by opening it into a BPM (see the Business Process Modeling guide).

  1. Select File > Open and select the PAM file.
  2. Click Open to display the Formats for ProcessAnalyst Model window.

  3. Select PowerDesigner Conceptual Data Model and click OK to begin the import.

    The recovered objects are imported into the CDM and appear in a default diagram.

Parent topic: Creating a Data Model