Hi Jonathan,
I opened incident 392323/2013 after we started experiencing difficulty opening table property sheets for tables with large numbers of partitions after upgrading from v15.3 to v16.1.
I received the following solution, which I considered to be a workaround -
If a table contains a huge number of partitions, then PowerDesigner will consume huge amount of
time to parse the partition information and put to the table's physical option tab.
To resolve the issue, you can use the following method:
1) Close PowerDesigner.
2) Open registry.
Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Sybase\PowerDesigner 16\General
Set (Default) to No
Create a new value(32bit) PDMPhysOptionsTimeOut and set its vaule to 0
3) Restart PowerDesigner. Run check in.
The side effect is that partition data will not display in your table's property sheet.
If you still want to see the data in table's property sheet, you can set PDMPhysOptionsTimeOut= 2
Note PDMPhysOptionsTimeOut can be set from 0 to 5.
0 means do not parse partition other value means time out setting (wait for X second(s)).
After this, I received a note back from SAP indicating they had opened a technical escalation,
and that the issue was under review. I didn't realize that placed the incident back to Customer
Action, and it was subsequently confirmed automatically.
I later opened incident 76824/2014 when I had the same problem after upgrading to v16.5.3.0 (4284), because I had also gotten a new machine and thus lost the registry update.
I recently received the following reply, but I feel this is still a workaround, that I should not
have to update the registry. I'm hoping for a permanent fix.
Have you set up the time out registry key?
You need to add a registry key to provide a time out when opening the table properties.
Make certain PowerDesigner is closed before doing the following steps.
To create the Registry key:
1) Run Regedit.exe (start->run->regedit)
2) Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USERS\software\Sybase\PowerDesigner16\General
3) Add a new string by right clicking in the right pane and
selecting New and select String Value
Name the string value PDMPhysOptionsTimeOut
Double click on the name of the string and
enter a value between 2 and 5 for the number of seconds for the time out
(this can be modified for your needs).
4) Exit the registry
5) Restart PowerDesigner
You will be able to edit the 'sql' of the physical options but in general the following will be true:
NOTE:
1) When parsing is cancelled or times out, the physical options text is displayed as plain text and
all depending attributes are irrelevant and shown grayed out.
2) Criterion based on these attributes is evaluated to False (which may be a limitation for you).
3) The classical Physical option page is also changed to plain text field.
4) You are unable to modify the Physical Options for this object unless the table
does not time out or unless you edit the 'sql'
Hope this helps.
Eric
What's your feeling on this? Should I consider updating the registry to be a fix?
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