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    Support for Azure Cosmos DB as a data source

    Provide support for Azure Cosmos DB as a data source. Caching and data ship are out of scope initially. Please indicate in the comments if that is desired.
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / data sources 2 Will not implement

    Provide a simple interface to setup incremental caching

    Add a new UI to setup incremental caching capabilities for a view based on timestamp, dates and/or IDs.
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / development 0 Future Consideration

    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

    Enable SDK CustomVisualization properties in the WebPlayer

    CustomVisualizations properties gear icon does not appear. In the attached image, you can see the properties (gear) icon is available for the native Table visualization (WebPlayer) so I can edit properties of the visualization. However, the gear i...
    almost 5 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    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

    API to acces Custom Expression UI

    We built many custom visualizations that requires users to input custom expressions ... we looked for an API to access Spotfire native Custom Expression Editor but we found that such API is missing! We need to be able to complement the custom visu...
    over 6 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    API to adjust visualization size

    Customer would like to call API to adjust visualization size from IronPython script. Please expose relative APIs. Preferably, (1) adjust height,width of any visual (2) switch position of 2 visuals (3) retreive current page layout configuration (to...
    over 4 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration
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