README for HP Neoview Release 2.5 (R2.5)

Data Source and Connectivity Management
HPDM has a new area called Connectivity, which you can use to view Neoview Database
Connectivity Service (NDCS) services, servers, data sources, and sessions. Users who have
operator privileges can:
• Create, update, and delete data sources
• Start and stop data sources
• Stop sessions
• Start and stop NDCS services
• Grant operator privileges (to allow other users to manage data sources). Operator privileges,
which pertain to data-source management, are different from administrator privileges, which
pertain to workload management. A user could have one of these two privileges, both, or
neither.
• Display user privileges
User- and Role-Management Features
Like DB Admin, which it replaces, HPDM now allows you to manage roles and users. You can:
• Display roles and the users who belong to them
• Add and delete roles
• Grant a role to a user or revoke a role from a user
• Display summary information about all database and platform users
• Add, edit, copy, and delete database users
• Add, edit, copy, and delete platform users
• Change user passwords
Metric Miner Reporting Tool
The Metric Miner reporting tool replaces the Neoview Reports standalone client. The standard
reports created by Neoview Reports can be imported into Metric Miner. The Metric Miner tool
allows you to:
• Execute a SQL statement or query and view the results within HPDM.
• Save the statement or query as a report that includes descriptive information, statement
parameters, and version information.
• Link reports so that the value of a row in one report can be passed as an input parameter to
another report. This allows you to "drill down" through a chain of linked reports to analyze
data in a more powerful way.
Enhancements to System Offender Workload Details
The Workload Detail dialog box in the System Offender now displays additional information
for a specified query:
• Connection rule
• Compilation rule
• Execution rule
• Connection rule
Knowing the rules applied to a query can make it easier to troubleshoot the query when it fails.
The same dialog box also includes:
• Aggregate query (yes or no)
• Aggregate total queries
• Aggregate seconds since last update
• Aggregate seconds total time
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