I've inherited a Logical Data Model in PowerDesigner (16.1), which has an attribute defined with a Standard Data Type of 'Characters' and length 1024. Leaving aside the fact that Variable Characters would probably be more suitable, I forward-engineered a PDM from this, with MySQL v5.0 as the target DBMS, and generated a DDL script.
A developer has pointed out to me that the max length of char in MySQL is 255 (which, admittedly, I didn't know). Should PD's Check Model parameters have picked up that the chosen data type was exceeding the allowed length? I ran the checks for the LDM and PDM, and it didn't flag it. My hunch is that I shouldn't have expected the tool to spot this.
Thanks, Antony