Jaspersoft Custom report: TIBCO Studio Tool to convert values from bytes to MB or GB

Products

• DX Unified Infrastructure Management (Nimsoft / UIM)
• CA Unified Infrastructure Management On-Premise (Nimsoft / UIM)
• CA Unified Infrastructure Management SaaS (Nimsoft / UIM)

Issue/Introduction

A Jaspersoft Custom report exported as docx includes a table with bytes.

Since the counters result in large values, how can I convert the values from bytes to MB or GB to make them more human-readable?

Environment

• Release: 20.4

Resolution

This request is 'out of scope' for Broadcom Support. We don't configure custom reports for customers, that falls more within the area of field services/consulting. 

Nevertheless, you have 3 options,

Jaspersoft community

a. Search/Post a message to the Jaspersoft community

https://community.jaspersoft.com/

Broadcom DX UIM Community

b. Search/Post a message to the Broadcom DX UIM community

https://community.broadcom.com/enterprisesoftware/communities/communityhomeblogs?CommunityKey=170eb4e5-a593-4af2-ad1d-f7655e31513b 

Create a custom report that uses a query/sql statement
c. If you're using/running a query within the custom report, it IS possible to convert the values from bytes to MB / GB. As an example for Microsoft SQL Server, see:

How to convert bytes to MB and add mb at end of result in sql query
https://www.codeproject.com/Questions/1063084/How-to-convert-bytes-to-MB-and-add-mb-at-end-of-re  

Query to convert from MB into a GB value
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37348032/query-to-convert-from-mb-into-a-gb-value 

Depending on your UIM backend database, there are other examples for other database types as well such as Oracle and MySQL.