Adapter UniDAC is not supported at design time

There is nothing different from the Aurelius point of view to retrieve the tables. It's just a select statement executed in the database. If UniDAC works but IBDAC doesn't, there might something with the connection configuration, I guess.

You can try to execute the SQL directly using IBDAC or directly in the database and see what does it return:

    SELECT RDB$RELATION_NAME AS TABLE_NAME 
    FROM RDB$RELATIONS
    WHERE 
    RDB$VIEW_BLR IS NULL AND
    (RDB$SYSTEM_FLAG = 0 OR RDB$SYSTEM_FLAG IS NULL)
    ORDER BY RDB$RELATION_NAME