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Reading multiple text files from file structure

Log file data from processing equipment is often automatically exported to a text file at a given location of a file tree. When there is a large amount of machines which generate new log files for each process run, automated gathering of this data...
about 8 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

Add pass-trough column naming patterns in Pivot Conditioning of the Information Designer for creating new Information Links

Pivoting functionality in Information Links helps reduce load time by pushing data preparation to server. Currently Pivot Conditioning functionality in Information Link dialogue of Information Designer does not allow Column name expressions for pa...
over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Information Services 0 Future Consideration

Fully Editable Data Tables

One is able to go through a wide variety of steps to build a data table. These include: choosing data sources, insert rows, columns, transformations, adding source of file column (during insert rows) etc etc... They should all be editable! Sometim...
over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

Ability to output parameter value as-is without single or double quotes

Check the following use cases of that scenario: Very often template developers need ability to add custom-built expressions to queries in FROM, WHERE and ORDER BY parts. Multi-tenancy for templates: one set of template/IL/DS can be used for diff...
over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 1 Future Consideration

Open a flow in TDV from Spotfire

When using a TDV flow in Spotfire, I would like to be able to open that flow from the Spotfire Data Canvas. This would be convenient when I need to see where the data is coming from and how it is transformed before ending up in Spotfire.
about 4 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

Import data from internet

It would be great if Spotfire could import a data table for the internet.; functionality that is similar to what is possible in Microsoft Excel or Power BI
over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

Connector for Apache Kylin

Spotfire should provide better support for Apache Kylin: http://kylin.apache.org/ At the moment, only a native ODBC connection is possible, where "keep data external" is not an option. As Kylin is a SQL based big data caching engine, "import data"...
over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

Add "Microsoft Studio" type of feature to browse a database's tables or views and see content and build query; this way data discovery is easier

In a startup company or when you are new toa company's data sources, "finding" valuable data is important and a lot of work. Today I use MS Studio to browse tables and views and build my queries; and then copy them to Spotfire, I'd like to do at l...
over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 1 Already exists

Information Designer should be able to create ROLAP models

In IBM Cognos Framework Manager, it is possible to design ROLAP models that behave like a cube to the end user. With the introduction of columnar databases like DB2 BLU or Cloudera Impala, the speed is there to support on request aggregations. The...
almost 9 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access / Information Services 0 Future Consideration

Display a more user-friendly message when error is encountered during stored procedure execution

We used stored procedures to pass data to Spotfire. This should alleviate heavy data access from our server and to isolate the tables from our users. However, when error is encountered using this approach Spotfire returns a series of cryptic error...
almost 9 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 1 Future Consideration