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Database Performance Analyzer (DPA) Feature Requests

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Active Alert Status on the Home Screen
I am curious to see if there is a shared desire or not with our user community. Outside of the current metrics DPA grabs and displays on the Home Screen like; Wait Time, CPU, Memory, etc... This could be for things like Table Space, Disk Free Space, Current Block or Deadlock, etc. I realize the Home screen is getting a…
Custom Metric - Allow Multiple Value Returns
The ability to add custom metrics not limited by "The query must return a positive numeric value and only 1 row and 1 column" would be a great addition. The ability to return multiple values with a key value as a set would extend the functionality. Obvious example would be to create custom metrics to return information at…
DPA Query Tuning Advisor - Show Stored Procedure Name
The name of the stored procedure/function/view is not shown in the Query Tuner detail, however, the query plan is. It would be helpful to display the name of the stored procedure (or view, function, etc.) that contains the SQL.
Include option to Register/Unregister DB via command-line
We are searching ways to automate de more that we could our DB server deployment and we're able to do so with a variety of tools/processes we need to use and follow in our company, except with DPA, where we must go through many GUI screens to get task done, with is prone to human error. Please provide command-line…
I nead a custom date drop box in DPA
I have a need to showcase the resource utilization like TPS, PLE, CPU, Memory etc for a particular time period on DPA. Present DPA average out the data when browsed for 24 hours, 1 week and so on.... So please help me with custom date selection.
Edit STATUS SUMMARY
Be able to edit the Status Summary on Main Page to Add a box of custom Alerts created by the DBA.
Use the Groups to more stuffs
The DPA have the possibility of Alerts, Reports, Metrics. It´ll be nice if we can use the groups created on Main Page to personalize this stuffs in groups.
Create alerts on groups
It´ll be nice if DPA give the possibility to when create a Alert we can select the group of servers created on the "Main Page", and, of course, when update the group the Alert upgrade dynamic.
Administrative Alert for Database Status
Create a Administrative Alert on DPA for database status. When a database go different of Online or a group of options set by DBA the DPA generate the alert.
Allow valid characters for email in Contact Management
The ~ is used in some of our company's distribution lists, however DPA's Contact Management screen does not allow you to test or save email addresses that include this character. I think it would be best if DPA accepted valid characters like this when creating contacts.