You can import nonrelational data objects for the following connection types:

When you import a nonrelational data object, the Developer tool reads the metadata for the object from its PowerExchange data map. A data map associates nonrelational records with relational tables so that the product can use the SQL language to access the data. To create a data map, use the PowerExchange Navigator.

After you import the object, you can include its nonrelational operations as read, write, or lookup transformations in mappings and mapplets. Each nonrelational operation corresponds to a relational table that the data map defines. To view the mapping of fields in one or more nonrelational records to columns in the relational table, double-click the nonrelational operation in the

Object Explorer

view.

For more information about data maps, see the

PowerExchange Navigator Guide

.