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Be able to use Custom Connectors on Spotfire Cloud

One of the most powerful features of Spotfire are the connectors. Custom Connectors are not available for Tibco Cloud users so they can't use this functionality. Custom connectors should be installable for Tibco Cloud users
over 1 year ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

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

Teradata connector available from the web client

Having the Spotfire Connector for Teradata available from the web authoring client, would remove the need to install the desktop client to create and modify connections to Teradata data sources.
over 2 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Likely to implement

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

NTLM Authentication on Data Adapters

It looks like currently we have only 4 option to use for Data Adapters in Webplayer (Prompt, Kerberos, Webconfig and Service Account). Is it possible to consider adding NTLM authentication as well. As we use NTML authentication on the spotfire ser...
almost 7 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 1 Will not implement

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