StrongLoop Arc Composer Doesn't Discover Models From Different Schema Than DBO - loopbackjs

I have a relational database on MSSQL, I've created this one on a different schema (titan) than DBO. When I try to retrieve the models from my database, the composer of strongloop arc only shows those tables that are currently saved on DBO schema but not my tables saved in my custom schema.
Any help might be useful. Thanks in advance.

For relational database discovery, LoopBack API allows you to supply schema and table. But the schema is not exposed by StrongLoop Arc. As a result, only default schema names are used by Arc. Please note dbo is the default schema name for mssql.
I suggest you open a feature request on github for StrongLoop Arc.

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Moreover, already having a mysql-based datasource, trying to create a repository to handle Users persistence result in error since it seems not to find the User built-in model.
How can I create table for built-int models, e.g. User, in LB4?
Update #1
Found this page in the documentation that tells how to list models to migrate and to use npm run migrate so I've tryied to put User in the list but got the foolowing error: so it seems to find/recognize the model but complains about it not having datasource settings in the model() decorator (I guess).
root#71827bda8df9:/home/node/app# npm run migrate
> backend#0.0.1 premigrate
> npm run build
> backend#0.0.1 build
> lb-tsc
> backend#0.0.1 migrate
> node ./dist/migrate
Migrating schemas (alter existing schema)
Cannot migrate database schema Error: Cannot migrate models not attached to this datasource: User
at /home/node/app/node_modules/loopback-datasource-juggler/lib/datasource.js:1146:12
at processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:78:11)
Long story short
Cannot create tables for built-in models.
Why?
Found this SO question with a similar problem, and the accepted answer links to this docs page where built-in models are still marked as TBD almost 4 years later.
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[1]https://docs.wso2.com/display/IS550/Data+Dictionary
[2] https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/sqlserver/en-US/dfae020f-a3bf-4e9b-9614-eccf7890f8c6/how-to-extract-data-from-ldap-and-then-import-it-into-sql-database-for-quicker-retrieval?forum=transactsql
[3]Active Directory data into SQL table
[4] https://www.egnyte.com/blog/2014/01/how-we-migrated-millions-of-users-from-ldap-to-mysql-using-feature-flags/

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from django.db import models
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loopback user model name conflict

We are reviewing Loopback as a framework for establishing a RESTful API for our already existing MySQL database.
When using the StrongLoop Arc GUI for automatically discovering models based on our database, a conflict with the "user" table was reported.
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How do you recommend that we resolve this conflict?