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Design Entity Types

In some cases, you may need to store implementation-specific data discovered during design. When this is so, and the requirement is clearly not related to the business itself, you may define a design entity type.

CA Gen accepts both business entity types and design data. You can add design data definitions as entity types and attributes to the data model defined previously in analysis.

Design data might be needed to maintain the following information:

• Security information for the business system, such as user IDs and passwords
• Quality and productivity statistics, such as error rates of high volume procedures and keystrokes per hour, for users of the business system
• Information specific to a particular implementation technique, such as job accounting information and printer IDs by user