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    Provide self-tuning capabilities in the query engine

    Have the query engine learn and recommend optimizations that can be provided to the developer as they are creating / designing views.
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization 0 Future Consideration

    Add a file adapter to connect to avro files directly

    Extend the flat file support of the server to connect directly to avro files to read in data.
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization 0 Future Consideration

    add hint in SQL SELECT to explicitly choose which table to data-ship to which data source

    At the moment there is a hint to suppress data-ship within a query. I do miss a hint to explicitly tell the TDV engine which table (or view) he must ship to another database (and which database). Reason: in some situations TDV does make decisions ...
    almost 5 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / performance 0 To be Reviewed

    Add Dataship options for DB2 z/OS (Type 4) sources

    Please add Dataship options for DB2 z/OS (Type 4) sources. I took contact with Tibco support but they can't help. It's old type of database but still in use. Technically dataship have to be possible. In the Advance connection tab, I don’t see opti...
    almost 2 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / data sources 2 Needs Info

    Support for Apache Arrow Flight

    In order to send large amounts of data from TDV to an client-application, we think it would be beneficial to consider to add a more optimized, yet standardized transport format as an alternative to xDBC.
    about 6 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / data movement 0 Future Consideration

    need "go to folder" and "find dependencies / references" for user-driven library search

    It's great to be able to search the library from the "open" + button. But, there needs to be a context menu item to go to the parent folder, like there is in the Library Admin Tool. And there needs to be an item to find the references/dependencies...
    almost 2 years ago in Spotfire / Analytics 0 Future Consideration

    disable automatic dump file creation when Analyst crashed

    Customer wants to disable automatic dump file creation in below folder when Analyst crashed (to reduce unexpected disk usage). C:\users\user_name\AppData\Local\TIBCO\Spotfire\<version>\Logs This can be done on Web Player by setting enabledMi...
    almost 4 years ago in Spotfire / Analytics 0 Future Consideration

    Changed the function to retrieve Datasource name registered in DSN using ODBC Function

    Hello, I created this idea in conjunction with the SR below. https://support.tibco.com/s/case/5004z00001uHqlwAAC/how-to-get-the-information-of-the-connected-tdv-datasource-from-the-dsn-set-in-window Currently, the TDV ODBC driver does not provi...
    over 2 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / JDBC / ODBC / ADO 0 Future Consideration

    Add full support for Azure SQL DB using Hyperscale

    Provide support for Azure SQL DB [using Hyperscale] as a data source. Caching and data ship are required using native BCP in windows and linux.
    about 3 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / data sources 1 Planning to implement

    Foresee command line interfaces / APIs for Deployment Manager

    In order to integrate TDV in a dynamic devOps pipeline, the addition of command line interface to create bundles, execution plans and mappings would be a great addition.
    almost 6 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / deployment 0 To be Reviewed
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