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    Ability to set isolation level of ODBC connections

    Currently you barely have any options when setting up an ODBC connection (In our case to DB2). We need the feature to be able to set the isolation level to uncommitted read to increase the database performance and to prevent lockings. The setting ...
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 4 Future Consideration

    use parameter as identifier in Information link SQL

    From time to time, we receive requests from our customers that they want to load data from database where table name is dynamic, e.g. on demand load data from different tablenames all of them have the same column structure. Unfortunately currently...
    over 1 year ago in Spotfire / Data Access / Information Services 0 Future Consideration

    Data Table Properties > link to source within Information Designer

    When I look into the "Source Information" tab, present me with a button that can take me directly into information designer for the related information link (if information link is present) - perhaps even make the information link a clickable hype...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access / Information Services 0 Future Consideration

    Add "Scan all Rows" to Import dialog for excel and text files - to improve column data type determination

    Spotfire sometimes incorrectly guesses the data type for Excel and text files because it scans only a portion of the rows in the file. Well add an option so it scans the whole thing so we can get that data type right the first time! SPSS Modeler h...
    about 9 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 1 Future Consideration

    Selected data input values should turn up in a list of selected values

    In case you have to select data input variables from a (very) long list of variables, it is difficult to keep track of all the values you have selected using the ctrl-button. Therefore, whenever you select an input variable, it should be made viss...
    almost 7 years ago in Spotfire / Information Services 1 Future Consideration

    Connectors Load Type Visibility

    Show whether in memory or in database when creating connection as you often don't realise it defaults to in-database. Change default to in-memory or allow it to be configurable in options or administration manager.
    over 3 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    Choose the default data type when importing Excel files

    It would be useful to have a default data type setting when importing Excel files. This would prevent the user from having to select a certain type for each column if they wanted them all to be the same. For example, if a user wants all of the col...
    over 3 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    Support Blob storage as data source

    Hi Team, I am expecting Spotfire to support Blob storage as a data source. As currently, I am trying to find out the way to connect Spotfire to blob and create an analysis. But I am not able to find any way to connect Spotfire to Blob. I have tri...
    almost 7 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 1 Future Consideration

    Allow Spotfire Analyst native connector for Google BigQuery to connect with service account

    Our vendor that provides us with our cloud-hosted data in Google BigQuery provides service accounts for us to access the data in their project, but does not add our Google accounts to the project. Other tools like Microsoft Power BI allow analysts...
    7 months ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    Statistica Enterprise Server and Spotfire Server integration

    This is a set of ideas, the major theme being to enable integration between Spotfire Server (in addition to Analyst) and Statistica Enterprise Server. The follow-up ideas delineate possible key points of this integration. Currently Spotfire Analys...
    about 7 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration
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