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    458 VOTE

    Run scripts when something changes in the application

    Scripts are currently tied to buttons in the text area and they have to be triggered by the user. It should be possible to execute a script as a response to some application event like data reload, marking changes or visualization axis changes. Th...
    over 10 years ago in Spotfire / Scripting 14 Future Consideration
    135 VOTE

    Add Massive Parallel Processing (MPP) capability on Windows Platform

    Requesting Massive Parallel Processing (MPP) capability as a supported feature on Windows Platform. At the time of this request, this is only supported on Linux but it would be great to have the same feature supported on Windows Servers as well
    about 7 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / performance 2 Will not implement

    Encoding-sensitive log importing from BCP.exe

    bcp.exe is a Microsoft tool that outputs logs using the operating system's encoding (e.g., MS-932 on a Japanese OS). It appears that DV (via Data Ship or similar) does not specify the OS-native encoding when importing logs from this tool, resultin...
    22 days ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / JDBC / ODBC / ADO 0 To be Reviewed
    146 VOTE

    Version Control integration with Deployment Manager

    Deployment manager needs to be able to access resources that were checked in by Studio to deploy to higher level environments to promote resources from dev to test to prod.
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / deployment 7 Unlikely to implement

    Provide metrics for DV usage

    The metrics that are included in TDV out of the box are useless for longterm reporting of how TDV is being used by customers. There is a package available through Advanced Services called KPI metrics but it is not supported and we are having great...
    over 6 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / monitoring 3 Planning to implement

    Spotfire streaming data from Kafka.

    Dear Team We have Kafka server. We want to stream data from Kafka to Spotfire. Br, Neck
    29 days ago in Spotfire Streaming 0 To be Reviewed

    Cache job auto-restart upon failure

    We would like the option to automatically reattempt a cache job when it fails. We have some public api data sources that randomly fail from time to time, and they succeed if you just restart them. It would save us time and failure alerts if they c...
    over 6 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / caching / data movement 2 Future Consideration

    Truncate cache buckets instead of delete

    Currently buckets have all their records deleted, and then the new records are inserted. In the database this means 2 write operations, and is a major cause of index fragmentation. Most databases allow you to truncate the table, which is only an a...
    almost 4 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / caching 1 Planning to implement

    Add a file adapter to connect to parquet files directly

    Extend the flat file support of the server to connect directly to parquet files to read in data.
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization 3 Future Consideration

    Progress Bar in Spotfire Analyst while executing Script

    We would like to have a progress bar in Spotfire Analyst to indicate that a script is currently being executed. Currently there is no way to tell natively if a script is running in the background. We would expect this to look similar to the web pl...
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire / Scripting 0 Future Consideration
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