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Spotfire Data Virtualization

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 Future Consideration

Enhance the coding capabilities with Studio

Update code editors like View SQL editor, ScratchPad and SQL Script to have line numbers, code complete, function suggestions and name and path suggestions.
over 8 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / development Future Consideration

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 Future Consideration

Develop a more intelligent UI for configuring LDAP domains/groups

Studio or Manager needs a better UI to configure and support AD and other directory service integration
over 8 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / access control / management Future Consideration

Enhance the view editor within Studio

Add new capabilities like code complete and function suggestions with the grid editor. Also provide better sync between the model and code as well as new graphical editing capabillities within the View Editor model.
over 8 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / development Future Consideration

Support for Azure Data Lake Store for read and write capabilities

TDV needs to be able to read and write files to Azure Data Lake Store. This is Microsoft's cloud version of HDFS that specializes in Big Data Analytical workloads.
over 8 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / data movement / data sources Future Consideration

Provide a web-based development environment

Provide a web-based development environment that can be used by developers or end-users to add data sources, build views and publish to external client applications.
over 8 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / development Future Consideration

Enable custom JSON structures for published web services

Developers need to have the ability to explicitly define the shape of JSON objects they want to expose via a REST service. Currently, users have no way of explicitly controlling how TDV will make the JSON object appear.
over 8 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / web services Future Consideration

Wizard-guided configuration for REST data source

The REST adapter supports a wide variety of functionality and options, but all these options appear on a single page, and there is no guidance on the order of steps needed to make it work. For example, it can be very confusing to figure out exactl...
over 8 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / web services Future Consideration

Allow Business Directory to be custom rebranded and restyled

I have had several customer ask me recently if Business Directory can be rebranded with their own company logos, background images and tailored with their own stylesheets to make it feel more in-keeping with other corporate tools. After all, the p...
over 7 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / data catalog / metadata Future Consideration
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