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    allow to show keywords, description etc in file's property dialog in OS's Explorer

    Customer expect spotfire to allow to show keywords, description etc in file's property dialog in OS's Explorer. In order to quickly check some information stored inside the dxp file, without opening it in Analyst. They have many versions(for busin...
    over 4 years ago in Spotfire / System Administration 1 Already exists

    schedule web player/automation services service/instance restart from spotfire server

    Customer encountered an issue that web player/automation services consume too much memory/temporary disk space, by restarting web player/automation services service/instance the issue was resolved so they hope spotfire server can provide a functio...
    about 9 years ago in Spotfire / System Administration 0 Future Consideration

    Specific role or licence for "Nodes & Services" option

    To have a specific role or a specific licence to control access for "Nodes & Services" option. This idea is similar https://ideas.tibco.com/ideas/TS-I-5549 but it talks about read only access. In my case I need to allow access an user to this ...
    about 9 years ago in Spotfire / System Administration 0 Future Consideration

    Please revive the error stack in the web player

    Somewhere along the recent 7.x versions, the stack trace disappeared along with the error icon in the web player. In practice, this has been a useful and helpful feature - the user can just send the stack trace along to support and troubleshooting...
    about 9 years ago in Spotfire / System Administration 0 Future Consideration

    Geographically dispersed Spotfire Nodes and Servers in a single collective

    The idea here is that by supporting geographically dispersed collectives we can gain several improvements: Ability to process data near the data source (e.g. if we have a large database in Europe and others in US it would be advantageous to proce...
    about 9 years ago in Spotfire / System Administration 1 Future Consideration

    Add a command line to start and stop the node manager services/instances from the Spotfire Server

    Many of our customers are more and more keen to use command line to control or monitor the services instead of the web interface. Some need to restart the services remotely as part of a global scheduler workflow.
    about 9 years ago in Spotfire / System Administration 0 Future Consideration

    allow 1 client certificate to be shared by multiple end users for 2FA

    Currently CN or SAN can be used to mapping to spotfure account name when enabling 2FA (2 factor authentication). Either CN or SAN must match spotfire account name in order to authenticate successfully. Customer wans to share 1 client certificate b...
    over 4 years ago in Spotfire / System Administration 0 Future Consideration

    Re-enable Web Player Windows performance counters

    Up until 7.0 there were a set of Windows performance counters exposed by the web player. We used to monitor these counters using third party monitoring tools - e.g. we were able to chart the "web player MB available before swapping to disk" metric...
    about 9 years ago in Spotfire / System Administration 1 Future Consideration

    Configure Tomcat to use log4j logging

    Modify the default Spotfire installation so that Tomcat logging uses log4j. Set up a default configuration where significant Tomcat messages are stored in the server log. The current default installation creates a mishmash of files using different...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / System Administration 0 Future Consideration

    Update Spotfire Server backend self-signed SSL certificates to use SHA-2 signing algorithm

    Per Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA), the US federal government must follow National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) guidelines when it comes to securing their IT systems. NIST policy released 9/28/2012 states that ...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / System Administration 3 Already exists
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