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Data Access

    Improvements to the ability to select columns within transformations

    I'd love to see the following features included in the interface for selecting columns within transformations. In the Exclude Transformation: 1) Identify the columns to not exclude (i.e include). If I have 100 columns, and 20 I want to include, it...
    almost 9 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 1 Future Consideration

    Permissions for data connections similar as for information links

    With information links you can simply give Access permission to the users and the info link can be used in a dashboard, without letting users browse into the folder the info link and use it. With data connections this is not possible: you must gra...
    about 6 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    Spotfire should support Azure Data Lake Store Gen2

    Spotfire should offer native live query support for Azure Data Lake Store Gen2 (ADLS).
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 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...
    about 1 year ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    Connector to Elasticsearch

    Hello, Is a connector to ElasticStack planned in TIBCO Spotfire roadmap? To my mind, it could be interesting to connect Spotfire to Elastic. Thanks in advance. Best regards.
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 5 Future Consideration

    Customize Data Connectors

    The ability to add JDBC connections exists but the DB DATA connectors is limited to a finite list. The need exists to be able to add additional data connectors to anything that you can configure and ODBC connection for. Adding data table does not ...
    almost 8 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    Support of SQL Complex Data Types (ARRAY, MAP, STRUCT)

    In our databases (Oracle, Impala, ...) we use complex data types (ARRAYS, MAPS, STRUCTURES). Those data types are not supported today by Spotfire in-db connectors.
    almost 10 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    Abort queries in data connections

    Sometimes you realized the query you sent off is taking too long and/or was wrong. In that case you want to be able to abort the query to avoid data source overload. This is possible with information link based queries (there is a cancel button) b...
    almost 7 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 3 Future Consideration

    Support local trust across multiple machines when working on application server farms

    According to https://support.tibco.com/s/article/Tibco-KnowledgeArticle-Article-44214 there are two options for trusting. Option #1 where the user can only trust their own queries is a useful method if you want to a) avoid that users are getting t...
    over 5 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 3 Future Consideration

    Switch existing connection between in-mem and in-db

    Once a native connector has been set for in-mem or in-db, you can not switch anymore to the other option. You have to create a new connector. The user interface is confusing because in the Data Tables properties, a field shows that Data is externa...
    over 10 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration
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