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    Add Address Bar and shareable link to Studio resources

    As a DV Developer, I'd like to be able to access an Address Bar that helps me navigate and explore resources in Studio. Within resources, I'd like to generate a link, which I could then enter in the Address Bar to quickly locate the resources I us...
    9 months ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization 1 Future Consideration

    Add Columns for node, sessionID, and requestID to cache_status tables, and have background job that marks the cache as failed if the session closes

    Currently the Cache status table only mark whether a cache has started, but when it get's stuck, there is no option other than to mark the record as either failed or completed, and then go on. There is no information that allows you to find the pr...
    almost 4 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / caching 0 Future Consideration

    WebUI: Search Data Catalog by column-level annotations/description

    In the TDV WebUI one can search the data catalog by annotations at the resource-level. In TDV Studio annotations can be added on the column-level as well. These appear in the WebUI on the Columns tab in the Description column. For documenting purp...
    over 1 year ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / data catalog / metadata 1 Future Consideration

    webservice endpoint properties in the endpoint

    Currently, the properties of the endpoints (such as JSON/XML tags and such) are edited and stored in the webservice. This means that either you need to manually alter this after deployment of an endpoint, or you need to deploy the whole webservice...
    over 1 year ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / deployment 0 Future Consideration

    Support scalar stored procedures

    Currently a stored procedure needs to return a table with at least one column in order for Spotfire to create the stored procedure element in Information designer. In Databases like Snowflake, we can have stored procs that only return a scalar val...
    almost 7 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access / Information Services 1 Future Consideration

    Oracle databases with high number of schemas and tables, the loading time is very, very long and times out some time.

    We have slow performance with some DB tools, which need long time to query Oracle data dictionary and that adding an Oracle hint /*+ RULE */ significantly speeded up e.g. SELECT /*+ RULE */ * from ALL_TAB_COLUMNS. Please provide the fix for this s...
    over 4 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    Improve cube functionality in Spotfire

    There is a lot of potential for improvements with using cubes in Spotfire. Here are some functions that I would like to see: Ability to use on-demand with cubes Cube dimensions to allow data types other than String (like Dates) Ability to "Limit d...
    about 6 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 1 Future Consideration

    Support optional prompts in data connections

    Information links allow for both optional and mandatory prompts but data connections seem to only support mandatory ones. This means you cannot have a data connection which serves multiple uses cases where one user would like to filter data by a d...
    over 4 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Likely to implement

    Add ability to parse arrays of scalar values to JSON_TABLE

    Currently, JSON_TABLE supports parsing arrays of JSON objects into rows. That works well, several of the documented examples show how to do that. Unfortunately, this feature does not currently support parsing arrays of scalar values. Being able to...
    9 months ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / sql support 0 To be Reviewed

    Better integration and usability features for Admin Tools

    The Analyst client, Information Designer, and Administration Tools should be better integrated. There needs to be more productivity featured added. Here are some examples of features that would make authoring and troubleshooting much easier and le...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access / Information Services 1 Future Consideration
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