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Suggestions and Requests / Re: Show all feature requests

« on: June 27, 2019, 12:16:50 pm »

Hi Mats,

We (the users) all agree and have proposed this a few times in the past. (the same for bugs)

The problem is that Sparx Systems has to want that as well.
And until now we haven't seen much movement in that direction.

It would fit however in the more modern idea's of how to be a software company in the 21st century.

Geert

Could not agree more.  Voting on improvements / bugs is now mainstream and JIRA provides this functionality out of the box.  I really like EA and I've been getting various places I've worked at to buy it whenever my job requires it.  But, there are some omissions which make me scratch my head.

The most glaring one for me is the inability to reverse engineer a database from DDL.  This has bitten me twice in the last 2 months.  On both occasions I've been sent DDL by e-mail and asked to make a data model diagram when I don't have access to the database.  On the first occasion, I had to get a developer to download and install the EA 30 day demo and talk them through using the ODBC import.  The second time, due to the locked-down environment that wasn't an option so I had to point the requester at the horrible Oracle SQL Developer Datamodeller.  Trust me, when that tool is outperforming you in any dimension, you have a problem

The fact that Oracle's free tool can do this (and not just for Oracle - these DBs were SQL Server) shows that the functionality can be implemented economically.  I found a similar function request back in September 2010 so they've had nearly 9 years to deliver.  Frustrating...