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Add CLOB data type to Spotfire's supported data types

Ensuring future extensibility: CLOB is a common data type, and supporting it will enable your product to address a wider variety of use cases. More efficient data processing: Support for CLOB data types makes it easier to perform complex string op...
over 1 year ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

Default Column Format for Imported CSV Data

When importing data from a csv file the number of rows checked to determine the data type is limited to 100 rows. There are cases where the first few hundred rows are set to null before a result can be seen. In such cases even if the result is of ...
almost 8 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

Improve loading time of data from Excel

Loading bigger Excel files can be painfully slow. Try the following: Fill 50 columns, 50000 rows in Excel with random numbers. That should give an excel file around 50MB big. Add this as a data table. It takes around 40s to even open the "Open" di...
over 6 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

Better control of Information Services database jobs and scheduled updates to improve system stability

With Resource Monitor it's possible to set limits on how many open analysis Web Player can have and how much memory Web Player can use but this barely scratches the surface of what we want to set limits on to assure the stability of a large Spotfi...
about 8 years ago in Spotfire / Information Services 0 Future Consideration

Add a "Favourites" folder, and "recently visited" option to the Information Designer

This would be very useful if you use the Information Library a lot, and have complex folder structures (like me!!)...
about 8 years ago in Spotfire / Information Services 1 Future Consideration

Support Synonyms in Spotfire

Synonyms have been around since 2005 for SQL Server. Per support, synonyms are not available in Spotfire Analyst due to "issue/lack of feature" in the MSSQL JDBC driver. You can find many posts on this issue online, a couple of them are these: ht...
about 8 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access / Information Services 2 Future Consideration

Enable Custom SOQL for the SalesForce connector

The current connector (7.10) only allows 2K rows from SFDC reports. In order to get around this, one must execute custom SOQL (SFDC SQL). The custom SQL is grayed-out for this connector. Importing entire SFDC tables is not an option; for large com...
about 8 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 3 Future Consideration

Browse for missing information links in on-demand tables

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almost 10 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access / Information Services 0 Future Consideration

Set the sequence of caching information link.

The ability to have more control over caching information links. Currently there is no way to schedule information links to cache one after each other. The customer here would like able to set the sequence of triggered information link caching to ...
almost 10 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access / Information Services 0 Future Consideration

Initial Value of the parameter in the CustomSQL of the InDatabase Connector should be set to NULL

The initial value of the parameter in the CustomSQL has default value as '10' (for numeric data types) and 'test'(for alphanumeric data types). These should be NULL by default.
almost 10 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 1 Future Consideration