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Data Access

    kdb+ Connectivity

    It would be very useful to have a Data Connector for kdb+. Connecting directly via ODBC is inconvenient when several tables cause prompts for logins, for example.
    almost 6 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 1 Future Consideration

    Case-insensitive TDV search

    Since 11.6 TDV can be browsed and searched directly from the files and data flyout, an excellent addition! Unfortunately contrary to (all) other search sources the TDV view search is case sensitve. Making it also case insensitve seems to be the be...
    almost 5 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    Adding an "Uncheck All" (for columns) box when adding a Data Table

    Having an option to uncheck all boxes in the "Excel Import Settings" Wizard, when loading a table or file into spotfire, would save lots of time instead of having to manually uncheck all the columns you do not want included. Thank you.
    about 7 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    Data connector add support for OpenID Connect and SAML 2.0

    Currently Data Connector supports only username/pwd and Kerberos. In a cloud setup (with no Kerberos) the support is essential for OpenID Connect and SAML 2.0.
    over 5 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 1 Future Consideration

    Ability to set isolation level of ODBC connections

    Currently you barely have any options when setting up an ODBC connection (In our case to DB2). We need the feature to be able to set the isolation level to uncommitted read to increase the database performance and to prevent lockings. The setting ...
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 4 Future Consideration

    Data Table Properties > link to source within Information Designer

    When I look into the "Source Information" tab, present me with a button that can take me directly into information designer for the related information link (if information link is present) - perhaps even make the information link a clickable hype...
    about 10 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access / Information Services 0 Future Consideration

    Add "Scan all Rows" to Import dialog for excel and text files - to improve column data type determination

    Spotfire sometimes incorrectly guesses the data type for Excel and text files because it scans only a portion of the rows in the file. Well add an option so it scans the whole thing so we can get that data type right the first time! SPSS Modeler h...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 1 Future Consideration

    Connectivity with Graph Databases

    Be able to connect to graph DBs like Ne04j without using data functions and to interactively query it to create network charts.
    over 2 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    Support for Azure Information Protection (AIP)

    Azure Information Protection is being adopted by Azure customers as an add-on layer of authorization at the document level. Applications reading protected documents (eg MS Excel worksheets) need to be AIP-aware. Current behavior from Spotfire: Spo...
    over 5 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 2 Future Consideration

    Display a specific message when an Information Link datasource has exceeded it´s connection limit

    When data from an information link could not be read because an underlying data source has reached it´s connection limit a message should be displayed about that instead of a generic error message about a timeout. The details section of the messag...
    over 10 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access / Information Services 0 Future Consideration
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