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    Windows 8 Tablet PC

    Spotfire Professional should be supported on Windows 8 tablet PC
    over 10 years ago in Spotfire / Installation 0 Will not implement

    Reliable distro files naming convention

    We had invested a lot of effort into building automations that would allow upgrade Spotfire quickly. Every such upgrade process starts with new distro files as inputs. But for some reason, distro filename convention keeps changing and it breaks o...
    almost 2 years ago in Spotfire / Installation 0 Future Consideration

    Make Spotfire extension installation more intuitive

    To make the Spotfire extension installation more intuitive, one could provide a checkbox option while uploading an sdn or spk to automatically update the webplayer service or any other service that is installed on the nodes. Else each extension in...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Installation 1 Likely to implement

    replace the Spotfire container middleware Tomcat with TongWeb Pas or other china middleware container

    Hi tibco team as the Chinese market is now heavily pushing forward with the "XinChuang" policy (a general understanding is that all operating systems, databases, and middleware layers use domestically produced software in China) due to the coun...
    almost 2 years ago in Spotfire / Installation 0 Unlikely to implement

    Use Tomcat Clustering/Session Replication

    Tomcat actually has a native solution for clustering http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-8.0-doc/cluster-howto.html. A customer of mine has tested the approach on their test 7.6 collective and it appears to work – They were able to start a session log...
    almost 10 years ago in Spotfire / Installation 1 Will not implement

    Newer version available message

    This message shows up after some upgrade is performed on the server such as a hotfix, new package or something within the same version: "You are running version 14.4 of the Spotfire client, but a newer version of 14.4 is also available. If you do ...
    about 2 years ago in Spotfire / Installation 0 Future Consideration

    put prerequisites-debian11.sh into tsnm-12.0.0.x86_64.tar.gz

    It's required to run "sh prerequisites-debian11.sh" when installing web player/automation services to install prerequisites. However prerequisites-debian11.sh is located under {node manager installation directory}/tsnm-{version number}.x86_64/nm/ ...
    about 4 years ago in Spotfire / Installation 0 Future Consideration

    migrate-action-db --tool-password

    eriuqeR The migrate-action-db command does not require the parameter "--tool-password" like migrate-db. This is not secure for such a powerful command. Update this command to require parameter "--tool-password".
    about 2 years ago in Spotfire / Installation 0 Future Consideration

    Add support for running the server using another database account than the schema owner

    Some customers require that the owner of a database object cannot be used for routine access. This means that they have to create the database as one user, then create an additional user and grant read/write access to the Spotfire database to the ...
    over 10 years ago in Spotfire / Installation 0 Future Consideration

    Linux Installer needs to be more flexible

    When installing on Linux, as of version 4.5 the customer now must run an RPM package. This shift from {{install.bin}} to {{tss-x.x.x.x86_xx.rpm}} has caused a lot of problems for our existing customers coming from 3.x for several reasons. * RPMs m...
    over 10 years ago in Spotfire / Installation 1 Will not implement
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