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    Better JSON parsing support

    When you get JSON strings and you need to extract a few fields to table format for Spotfire consumption it would be nice having an efficient and easy to use parser to do this out of the box. Something like: JSONGetField( JSONString, ”afieldname” ...
    almost 8 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    Improve JDBC Query operators and Data constructs

    Query JDBC operator should behave/look as close as it could to "In memory tables". One case is the one stated in "SB-44976 JDBC Query Op Output Settings cannot use aggregate expressions" . Another would be that for an In Memory table we can define...
    almost 8 years ago in Spotfire Streaming 0 Unlikely to implement

    Add ability to programmatically determine what objects are included in a cache policy.

    Using a policy has exponentially reduced the time to complete the full cache refresh (from ~ 3 hours to just over 1 hour). However, there is no way to determine which views/objects have been added to a policy, thus managing the cache refresh proce...
    almost 8 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / caching 0 Future Consideration

    Using StreamBase Studio as client tool on remote PC for development to a Data Stream host server and also integrate Streambase Studio with OKTA..

    This would be helpful in a share environment with different development groups.
    almost 4 years ago in Spotfire Streaming 1 Unlikely to implement

    Import fixed width data tables into Spotfire

    Sometimes source data tables are in the format of fixed width, no delimiter being used. Below is an example. Each field has a fixed width of 3 characters, but no delimiter. a def gh abc def g ab de ghi Importing data like this into Spotfire, there...
    almost 4 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 2 Future Consideration

    Add control of for the correct use of http status codes

    Follow W3C standards for http status codes. For instance if a published REST service doesn't receive a required input parameter, TDV currently returns a status code of 500, which is incorrect - it should return 412 or 422. The inability to send t...
    about 8 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / web services 0 Future Consideration

    Add an SPN option to pkg_import's -set flag, to allow Kerberos authentication to be changed on the data sources

    In the TDV AdministrationGuide.pdf, the section on Using the Package Import Utility provides a list of parameters for the Package Import utility (i.e. pkg_import.bat). They are to be supplied on the command line as: [-set <path> <data_ty...
    about 8 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / deployment 0 Future Consideration

    Automatically suggest joins in Information Link.

    Spotfire should automatically suggest joins, when columns from different tables are added to the Information Link. We want Information Designer to be smart enough to suggest the joins already created, that are required on the Information Link, whe...
    about 8 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access / Information Services 0 Future Consideration

    Depivot in Information Link

    It should be possible to do a depivot in an Information Link.
    about 8 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access / Information Services 0 Future Consideration

    Data Type of Column that starts as Int but later contains strings doesn't read the strings

    Hi, In the situation where a column in an excel file contains strings and integers but starts with integers, the data type of the column read into Spotfire is integer. It can't be changed from within Spotfire to read string and read in the string ...
    about 8 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration
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