Version 4.1.5
Release Notes
26 August, 2011
Quest Software's Toad Data Modeler helps organizations create, maintain and document their database systems with an easy-to-use graphical interface into new or existing database structures. Toad Data Modeler enables users to reverse engineer database structures, update models, design and generate SQL, compare models and generate alter scripts, create HTML or RTF reports, in addition to versioning of database designs and creation of to-do lists.
Review the following sections for new features and updates in this release:
Changes in comparison with DB2 z/OS v.9
And several minor changes have been implemented.
New checkbox Append to File was added in What to Generate tab.
When the option is checked, the extra code is appended to the original file and nothing of the original file is overwritten.
Gallery has been updated and contains new objects.
Also new option Add to Active Model has been added in the object popup menu.
New Macros were added in Library. There are two new packs of Macros:
- Rename Primary Keys
- Rename Relationships
- Rename Check Constraint Names
- Rename View Relationships
- Add Entities
- Add Attributes to Selected or All Entities
- Copy Attribute to All Entities (accessible via Model Explorer)
In HTML reports, the content of the Description tab of Workspace Properties added at the top of every workspace displayed under the ER Diagram tab.
View Relationships are now highlighted when moving mouse over the particular Caption.
Right-click relationship Caption menu functionality improved by adding new options Move Caption to Parent and Move Caption to Child.
In View Properties, Relationship alias is now displayed along with the Entity Name.
Schema Name displayed as the first part of the name of the object in the Model Explorer when the Display Mode is set to Full Names.
The following is a list of issues addressed and enhancements implemented in this release.
| Feature | Resolved Issue | CR ID |
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| Alter Script | Even when Workspaces are unchecked in Selected OTPs, they still appear in differences comparison chart - Fixed. | 88508 |
| Even when Before/After script of procedures and functions is unchecked in AlterScript generation Wizard, it is still generated to AlterScript - Fixed. | 88513 | |
| Series of errors after AlterScript generation for MySQL dbs - Fixed. | 88609 | |
| Alter Script/Merge Models | Wrong result of Merge Models/AlterScript generation with SQL Server 2008. It doesn't consider which model is left and which is right and sets the value of the variable to 1. | 86641 |
| Export to Graphic File | Add the checkbox Open Folder After Export to open the folder with the exported graphics after processing. | 86639 |
| The file name offered is the name of the model. You are not prompted on overwriting the previously exported file/image. | 86722 | |
| When other than the system drive C: selected for export, multiplied slashes appear and the path is invalid - Fixed. | 88446 | |
| Gallery | Doubled Domain when added from the Gallery. | 86245 |
| Generator | Malfunction of Append to File- the original model is being overwritten - Fixed. | 88503 |
| LER | Logical model- Cardinality does not allow optional (1-1) relationships- not able to set a relationship cardinality to be 1..1 - 0..1. | 87109 |
| Model Explorer | Full Names shown also in Model explorer now. | 84909 |
| Ordering columns | Add possibility to reorder columns via scripting. | 84631 |
| RE Wizard | In RE Wizard (and Model Update), when Load Alias is not used and you only select the Alias and click next, default RE values are used- confusing. | 86749 |
| Relationships | Application of the default value of Mandatory Parent on non-identifying relationships. | 86642 |
| Popup menu- Move Caption to Parent and Move Caption to Child options added. | 61162 | |
| Reports | In HTML reports, the content of the Description tab of Workspace Properties added at the top of every workspace displayed under the ER Diagram tab. | 85208 |
| Reverse Engineering | Error 'null' is null or not an object when RE 11.2.0.2 database DDL. | 87211 |
| Version Manager | Includes options that didn't work, because they were not finished - Fixed. | 85688 |
| Workspace | Added option in Add Selected Objects to add relationships for the tables added in workspace. | 86242 |
| File management | Management and handling of read-only files- error thrown upon saving a file - Fixed. | 84910 |
There aren't any known issues at the time of this release.
| Feature | Known Issue | Defect ID |
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| n/a | n/a | n/a |
Toad Data Modeler 4.x allows you to open DM2 files and DMX files of Toad Data Modeler 2.x (DMX file is a DM2 file in XML format.) and all file types of TDM 3.x. This applies only to models of database systems supported by both applications - Toad Data Modeler 2.x / Toad Data Modeler 3.x and Toad Data Modeler 4.x.
It is not possible to open models created in Toad Data Modeler 4.x and 3.x in Toad Data Modeler 2.x.
Do not open and re-save models originally created in a higher version of Toad Data Modeler (e.g. in v. 4.1.5) in a lower version of Toad Data Modeler (e.g. v. 3.6.6).
Before installing Toad Data Modeler, ensure your system meets the following minimum hardware and software requirements:
| Platform | Pentium IV |
| Memory | Minimum 256 MB , 1 GB recommended |
| Hard Disk Space | Minimum 160 MB, 320 MB recommended |
| Operating System |
Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional Edition (Service Pack 4) Microsoft Windows XP (32-bit or 64-bit) Microsoft Windows Server 2003 (32-bit or 64-bit) Microsoft Windows Vista (32-bit or 64-bit) Microsoft Windows Server 2008 (32-bit or 64-bit) Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 (64-bit) Microsoft Windows 7 (32-bit or 64-bit) |
| Database Server |
DB2 UDB v. 8 (LUW), 9.0 (LUW), 9.5 (LUW), 9.7 (LUW) DB2 z/OS v. 9, v.10 Ingres 9.3, 10.0 Access 2000/2002/2003/2007/2010 SQL Server 2000, 2005, 2008 SQL Azure MySQL 5.0, 5.1, 5.5 Oracle 9i, 10g, 11g R1, 11g R2 PostgreSQL 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 9.0 Sybase ASE 12.5, 15, 15.5 Sybase SQL Anywhere 11 |
| Cloud Database Server |
Oracle databases running on Amazon EC2 SQL Server running on Microsoft SQL Azure MySQL database running on Amazon RDS |
| Additional Software |
Adobe Acrobat Reader 7.0 or later (for viewing the Installation Guide) |
Review the following information about using Toad Data Modeler in virtual environments:
| Application |
Toad Data Modeler has been tested for Citrix support on Windows XP using the XenApps 5.0 Server. |
| Desktop (VDI) |
Toad Data Modeler has been tested with the following: Quest vWorkspace 7.0 running on Windows XP (32-bit) Note: Problem during print on virtual printer - The problem occurs only in case of print from local machine (all printers from local machine are visible on vWorkspace). If the virtual printer is installed on vWorkspace directly, the problem doesn't occur. |
| Server |
Toad Data Modeler has been tested with VMware Server 2 running on Windows 7. |
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Note: Toad Data Modeler may work in virtualization environments other than the ones in which it was tested. |
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This section contains information about installing and operating this product in non-English configurations, such as those needed by customers outside of North America. This section does not replace the materials about supported platforms and configurations found elsewhere in the product documentation.
This release is Unicode-enabled and supports any character set. In this release, all product components should be configured to use the same or compatible character encodings and should be installed to use the same locale and regional options. This release is targeted to support operations in the following regions: North America, Western Europe and Latin America, Central and Eastern Europe, Far-East Asia, Japan.
The release is localized to the following languages: Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Czech, Hebrew, Italian, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Spanish.
This release has the following known capabilities or limitations: Localized support for HTML and RTF/PDF reports in several languages will be distributed via TDM Community.
http://modeling.inside.quest.com/pageloader.jspa?sbinPageName=downloaddictionaries.htm&sbinPageTitle=Download%20Dictionaries
Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Czech, Hebrew, Hindi, Punjabi, Russian, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese and Italian
The Toad release package contains the following products:
Refer to Installation Guide for installation instructions.
Notes:
Toad Data Modeler Trial version limitations: 15 -day trial period and multiple features limited to a maximum of 25 entities.
To install Toad Data Modeler successfully, Administrator privileges are necessary.
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