New Features and Enhancements

You can now organize all the database models involved in your application development process in a single project in erwin DM. You can store projects and their contents as a folder in a location of your choice. To open the models in a project together, open the project file from the storage location or through the erwin DM. The new Project Explorer pane and toolbar in erwin DM also offer you an end-to-end solution to organize and manage the models in a project.

For more information, refer to the Getting Started with Projects topic.

Teradata Support

erwin DM now supports Teradata Vantage 17.x as a target database.

For information on supported objects and data types, refer Teradata Support Summary.

MongoDB Support

erwin DM now supports MongoDB 5.x and 6.x as target databases.

For information on supported objects and data types, refer MongoDB Support Summary.

AlloyDB Support

erwin DM now supports AlloyDB 1.1 as target database.

For information on supported objects and data types, refer AlloyDB Support Summary.

Neo4j Support

erwin DM is now certified to work with Neo4j version 4.4.x.

PostgreSQL

erwin DM is now certified to work with PostgreSQL versions 14.x and 15.x.

For information on supported objects and data types, refer PostgreSQL Support Summary.

SQL Server

erwin DM is now certified to work with SQL Server version 2022.

For information on supported objects and data types, refer SQL Server Support Summary.

Databricks Partner Connect

Databricks Partner Connect is now live and available for erwin DM. Databricks as a target database also supports Databricks Unity Catalog.

OKTA support for Snowflake

In addition to AzureAD, erwin DM 12.5 supports OKTA Single Sign On (SSO) for Snowflake database.

Bitbucket Support

You can now connect to a Bitbucket repository to push forward engineering scripts for a Mart Model to the Git repository. Bitbucket enables you to utilize features, such as version control and collaboration with team members. For information on connecting to Bitbucket, refer to the Connecting to Git Repositories topic.

Database Support Updates

Support for the following databases has been updated:

Database	Enhancements
ArangoDB	Views tab has been added to the ArangoDB Reverse Engineering Wizard.
Avro	Precision and Scale properties have been added to the Avro Field Editor. These properties are applicable only to the data type BYTES.
Google BigQuery	Support for Table Search Index has been added. For more information, refer to Defining Google BigQuery Search Indexes topic. Views and Materialized Views tabs have been added to the Google BigQuery Reverse Engineering Wizard. Google BigQuery ER diagrams have been updated to display the property mode of the column (NULL, NOT NULL, REPEATED/ARRAY), if the Display Column Null Option is selected in the ER Diagram Editor. You can now set physical table names of up to 1024 characters. You can now set physical column names of up to 300 characters. Default Collation property has been added to the Google BigQuery Dataset Editor. Default Collation property has been added to the Google BigQuery Table Editor. Collation and Default Expression properties have been added to the Google BigQuery Table Column Editor. Partition Options properties have been moved to the Partitions tab Google BigQuery Table Editor. Partition Expression section has been removed from the Partitions tab in the Google BigQuery Table Editor and Materialized View Editor. The partition expression is now displayed on the NoSQL tab in these Editors. Values in the Partition Expression Options now automatically resets when a column of a different Physical Data Type is selected on the Partition Columns section in the Google BigQuery Table Editor and Materialized View Editor. Option Selection tab has been updated, and Owner Override tab has been added to the Google BigQuery Forward Engineering Schema Generation Wizard.
Cassandra	Materialized Views tab has been added to the Cassandra Reverse Engineering Wizard.
Couchbase	erwin Data Modeler (erwin DM) now supports using Couchbase with Python SDK instead of C SDK.
DynamoDB	You can now set physical table and index names of up to 255 characters. Session Token authentication has been added for DynamoDB database connection.
Redshift	Support for Redshift Encoding AZ64 has been added.
MongoDB	Schema validation options for forward engineering a model has been enhanced. For information on schema validation, refer MongoDB: Schema Validation. Display Field Null Option property has been replaced with Display Field is Required Option property on the MongoDB ER Diagram Editor.
JSON	Display Field Null Option property has been replaced with Display Field is Required Option property on the JSON ER Diagram Editor. JSON Array Element option has been added to JSON Reverse Engineering Wizard to specify whether all or only first element of a JSON array is processed during reverse engineering. Viewer tab in the JSON Forward Engineering Schema Generation Wizard has been updated to display the names of JSON objects and arrays and the number of child elements inside them.

Denormalization Support for NoSQL Models

You can now perform advanced denormalization on all NoSQL database models in addition to Cassandra.

For more information, refer to the advanced denormalization topic.

Productivity and UI Enhancements

Several additions and enhancements have been implemented to improve erwin DM's productivity and usage experience. These enhancements are:

Copy Family: You can now create new ER diagrams using whole or part of model object families from existing diagrams.
Recent Files: The Recent Files list in the erwin DM Welcome screen now displays the latest version of the Mart models instead of the version that was last accessed.
Demand Loading: To improve project loading time, Demand Loading option for projects has been added to erwin DM Options.
Scheduler: Support for projects has been added to erwin DM Scheduler. You can now schedule reverse engineering jobs for all the required models in a project using erwin DM Scheduler.
Project Explorer: erwin DM now displays models with configured connection parameters for reverse engineering in the Project Explorer with a green check mark.
Custon Option Set: You can now create and use custom option sets for Complete Compare in erwin DM Scheduler.
Exclude UDP: You can now choose to exclude User Defined Properties (UDP) during Complete Compare to accelerate the process.
SDI Indication on Model Diagram: For columns or attributes labelled SDI, you can now choose to display an SDI indication on the model diagram via diagram properties. For more information, refer to the Set Table Display Preferences and Set Entity Display Preferences topics.
Column Sort Order: NoSQL databases now support column sort order function in addition to SQL databases.

erwin ER360

erwin ER360 provides unified and central visuals of your erwin Data Models to help you manage, review, and govern your on-premises or SaaS ‘On Cloud Mart’ data models. It provides self-service access to visualization and detailed metadata classification to encourage business teams, governance teams, and other stakeholders to collaborate and increase data literacy. For more information, refer to erwin ER360 Online Help.

Git Support

You can now view the DDL of a model version and compare it with another version of the model from the Catalogs pane.

DM Connect for DI Support

The DM Connect for DI feature has been upgraded to support:

Importing one or more erwin Data Intelligence (erwin DI) environments to erwin Data Modeler (erwin DM)
Multiple erwin DI configurations
erwin DI v13.0

Enterprise Modeling Compliance

Enterprise modeling Compliance (EMC) provides a mechanism for mart-privileged, non-administrator users to apply metadata standards across mart catalogs in order to maintain quality of data models at the enterprise level. Using EMC, you can create customized data compliance policies and rules for data models saved to Mart. You can also create user-defined jobs to apply these policies to the models and generate comprehensive reports with pass, error, and warning statistics.

For more information, refer to the Enterprise Modeling Compliance topic.

Enterprise Glossary

Enterprise Glossary provides a mechanism to employ your business terms, vocabularies, ontologies, and standards weaved together to build and govern an enterprise-level standard for your mart-catalog assets.

For more information, refer to the Enterprise Glossary topic.

erwin Mart Portal

erwin Mart Portal has undergone several enhancements as follows:

erwin Mart Portal has undergone several enhancements as follows:
Email addresses or user name, individually as well as together are supported as your default selector instead of only username. You can configure this under settings to be displayed across erwin Mart Portaland erwin ER360.
The catalog tree displays a Sensitive Data Indicator, SDI tag for models that contain sensitive data.
Ability to control the level of permission and assign a user or a group to a profile, library, or model has been added.
View as a permission at library level has been added.
Using the Project Explorer in erwin DM, you can save projects and their models to mart under catalogs.
You can generate Personal Access Tokens for REST API via Settings.
User device tracking for logs is supported.

Third Party Tools

Support for third-party tools has been upgraded as follows for erwin DM and erwin Mart Portal:

Tomcat Server v9.0.65 has been replaced with Apache Server v2.4.57.
AdoptOpenJDK version for erwin DM has been upgraded to 11.0.19+7.
JDK version for erwin Mart Portal has been upgraded to 17.0.7.
OpenSSL has been upgraded to version 3.1.0.0.