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    Make write protected properties editable

    Dear developer, we have a request from our clients to make write-protected properties like limits and table/column properties writeable. Also, predefined limit sets should be editable via tooling. Our developers updated that We can easily m...
    over 6 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

    Can you fix "Copy to Clipboard" button action to work with Notepad?

    This has been an annoying feature in the product for many years - can you fix it please? Let's say I'm in Data Table Properties > Source Information. I copy the Source: text to the clipboard via the button, then paste into Notepad. No line br...
    over 6 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 2 Future Consideration

    designProcedureByExample API should silently create output cursors if none exist in the source procedure

    As currently implemented, the designProcedureByExample API call does not support procedures which do not have an explicit OUT cursor (for example, DB2 stored procedures using RESULT SETS instead). In this situation, the procedure will error out wi...
    over 6 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / admin APIs 0 To be Reviewed

    Improve added columns visibility

    Why does Spotfire show the "ignored columns" instead of the "added columns"? In the ADDED column transformation? This is non-intuitive and makes it difficult to understand and modify. Can this be changed to listing the columns that ARE included?...
    over 6 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 3 Future Consideration

    Left Single Match in Joins

    Would be extremely useful.
    over 6 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 1 Future Consideration

    Automatically editing tables when loaded

    It would be nice to automatically have tables be changed when they are loaded into spotfire, if you already know that you will want this for every data table. A simple example is adding in row id, since it is often useful to have row id when worki...
    over 6 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

    Cache options in TIBCO DV

    Options like {OPTION DISABLE_DATA_CACHE} don't work ,is there any configuration setting that needs to be done so that this option works in TDV ,this is needed while writing scripts for incremental caching.
    over 6 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization 1 Already exists

    add preference/option to enable/disable automatically categorize numeric column as category if column name end with CODE, MODE etc when importing data

    Currently when importing new data, if a numeric column has name end with some special word like CODE, MODE, etc, then it will be automatically categorized as category rather than number. Customer hopes there would be a option to allow them to en...
    over 6 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

    We need a lib/util function to get the current sessionid / requestid of the session.

    We can use this utility to find out who has consumed more resources from the sys_requests table. We can create a cache table based out of sys_requests to persist the information. We can join the session_id we got from the utility and find out the ...
    over 6 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization 1 To be Reviewed

    Export data table as shapefile

    Allow user to export a data table (with or without geometries) as a shapefile (.shp) format.
    almost 7 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration
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