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    Ability to disable storing data in the undostack to prevent continuous increase in memory consumption when data is refreshed

    Per request from the Support team (Case#02157929), I am creating this urgent feature request. The customer(s) are severely impacted by the continuous memory consumption when the open template (a dashboard) has automatic refresh every n minutes. At...
    over 3 years ago in Spotfire / API 5 Future Consideration

    Cache job auto-restart upon failure

    We would like the option to automatically reattempt a cache job when it fails. We have some public api data sources that randomly fail from time to time, and they succeed if you just restart them. It would save us time and failure alerts if they c...
    over 6 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / caching / data movement 2 Future Consideration

    Truncate cache buckets instead of delete

    Currently buckets have all their records deleted, and then the new records are inserted. In the database this means 2 write operations, and is a major cause of index fragmentation. Most databases allow you to truncate the table, which is only an a...
    almost 4 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / caching 1 Planning to implement

    Add a file adapter to connect to parquet files directly

    Extend the flat file support of the server to connect directly to parquet files to read in data.
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization 3 Future Consideration

    A way programmatically to migrate and change the types to solve the problem

    This is related to Support ticket 2559163. The exception is thrown before constructor deserialization, so the developer can't catch that exception. The fix is to throw the exception when deserializing the explicit immutable property.
    3 months ago in Spotfire / API 0 To be Reviewed

    Add a WLM Policy to triage jobs based on service class/priority

    As a DV administrator, I'd like to set a workload management policy that segregates jobs based on the service class, priority, and/or client applications assigned to it. For example, I'd like to specify that during certain hours, select caching re...
    9 months ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / management 0 Future Consideration

    Replace Web monitor's graphs with orther tools (with HTML5-based graphs)

    Right now, I can't open web monitor (https://hostname:9402/monitor/) because Adobe flash EOL. Refer: Adobe will no longer be supporting Flash Player after December 31, 2020 and Adobe will block Flash content from running in Flash Player beginning ...
    over 5 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / monitoring 1 To be Reviewed

    Enhance the coding capabilities with Studio

    Update code editors like View SQL editor, ScratchPad and SQL Script to have line numbers, code complete, function suggestions and name and path suggestions.
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / development 2 Future Consideration

    Trellis for visualization mods

    Trellis is a very powerful way of visualizing and comparing data in different parts. Spotfire Mods framework should natively support Trellis. I would like the Mods API to automatically provide the Properties configuration dialogue like in bar char...
    over 5 years ago in Spotfire / API / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    please expose API to export visualization to excel file

    please expose API to export visualization to excel file, aka utilize below functionality in IronPython script or Action Mods https://ideas.spotfire.com/ideas/SPF-I-42 SPOT-2150 14.0.0 Export tabular visualizations to Microsoft Excel with preserved...
    about 1 year ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration
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