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Netezza Performance Server

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High swap usage alert

The platform doesn't have any alerts for high swap usage. A single bad query can suck up swap space impacting performance significantly for other queries and the system will not send out any alerts. It would be good to have an alert in "ap issues"...
7 months ago in Netezza Performance Server 0 Submitted

Limit password characters

Our security guidelines for compatibility with multiple different systems state that passwords should include only English characters. (plus special and numerical ones of course) But there is no way to enforce such a limit on the Netezza database ...
over 1 year ago in Netezza Performance Server 0 Submitted

User lock for a few hours after failed log on attempts

For security reasons after multiple failed log in attempts a users account should be blocked for a limited time. Right now the system only allows for permanent lock of account and that is problematic as each unlock needs to be done manually.
over 1 year ago in Netezza Performance Server 0 Submitted

Granularity for backup

Ideal example of it is 'staging database', which may not be worth backing up. Backing up unnecessary databases is a toll on resources (Network bandwidth, CPU, storage). Having choice of which databases user can backup and at what time may help our...
over 5 years ago in Netezza Performance Server 0 Functionality already exists

Enable Azure Standard Blob Block Storage (General Purpose V2) compatibility

Since Premium Blob is 10 times more expensive than Standard Blob, Standard Blob must be thoroughly investigated, tested and implemented as an option.
8 months ago in Netezza Performance Server 0 Submitted

Ability to specify NetBackup Copy Number on nzrestore operations

With multiple CP4D appliances, and multiple NetBackup Media Server Clusters, it would be beneficial to be able to specify the NetBackup Copy Number on nzrestore operations to match that of the most local NetBackup copy. For instance, CP4D applianc...
over 5 years ago in Netezza Performance Server 0 Not under consideration

Dynamic history configuration

To switch current history configurations one has to restart NPS system which takes a large amount of time on big systems.
almost 5 years ago in Netezza Performance Server 1 Future consideration

Dropdata(-dropdata) Support for backup

In netezza, we have a good backup performance indicator in '-dropdata' option, which indicates how fast we can backup, without writing to filesystem. Having such performance indicator in Concerto will help to isolate issues for backup performance ...
over 5 years ago in Netezza Performance Server 0 Future consideration

Resource allocation graph in cyclops

In Cyclops the only graph that doesn't store data in InfluxDB is the "resource allocation one" That is a big shame as this prevents us from going back in time and seeing the data for this graph as well as the graph not adjusting to the time frame ...
about 3 years ago in Netezza Performance Server 0 Not under consideration

nmon for IPS host monitoring

We don't have any monitoring capability like nmon at the database host level in the IPS.If we want to install, we need to get exceptions from the security team since it is not available on FixCentral. Even then, there is no guarantee it will persi...
over 5 years ago in Netezza Performance Server 2 Future consideration