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    Connector for Apache Kylin

    Spotfire should provide better support for Apache Kylin: http://kylin.apache.org/ At the moment, only a native ODBC connection is possible, where "keep data external" is not an option. As Kylin is a SQL based big data caching engine, "import data"...
    about 9 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    Add "Microsoft Studio" type of feature to browse a database's tables or views and see content and build query; this way data discovery is easier

    In a startup company or when you are new toa company's data sources, "finding" valuable data is important and a lot of work. Today I use MS Studio to browse tables and views and build my queries; and then copy them to Spotfire, I'd like to do at l...
    about 9 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 1 Already exists

    Information Designer should be able to create ROLAP models

    In IBM Cognos Framework Manager, it is possible to design ROLAP models that behave like a cube to the end user. With the introduction of columnar databases like DB2 BLU or Cloudera Impala, the speed is there to support on request aggregations. The...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access / Information Services 0 Future Consideration

    Display a more user-friendly message when error is encountered during stored procedure execution

    We used stored procedures to pass data to Spotfire. This should alleviate heavy data access from our server and to isolate the tables from our users. However, when error is encountered using this approach Spotfire returns a series of cryptic error...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 1 Future Consideration

    Limit numbers of data loaded in analyst if using information links (TS-41016)

    At the moment it is not possible to limit number of rows loaded in Spotfire analyst if Information link is used.This cause the unusability of analyst in case of large number of data coming from several different table (if not duplicating every tim...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access / Information Services 0 Future Consideration

    Information Designer window backend and elements column no and sorting

    In information designer we want that developer can see more number of column while creating column or joins ,currently its limited to 3 items only.Also there should be an option of keeping it in back end as floated windows so that user can switch ...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access / Information Services 0 Future Consideration

    Custom Query restriction is not mentioned in manual

    When we work with Data Connection it is possible to creare a Custom Query with parameters based on the manual below: https://docs.tibco.com/pub/sfire-analyst/7.6.1/doc/html/en-US/TIB_sfire-analyst_UsersGuide/index.htm In this manual it is said tha...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    Explicit adapter to make a connection to EBX and OSI PI

    In Novartis, we have multiple EBX and OSI PI systems. EBX business is not interested to replicate their data to Oracle instance and OSI PI systems are facing issues with java version whenever there is an upgrade in TDV
    over 4 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / data sources 1 Will not implement

    Allow filtering of data on load from file-based sources like excel/csv

    When reading data from file or other non-relational type sources, support the ability to filter the data as part of the load process. I see this addressing 2 different needs. The first is simply being able to support only loading a subset of the d...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 1 Already exists

    Open a flow in TDV from Spotfire

    When using a TDV flow in Spotfire, I would like to be able to open that flow from the Spotfire Data Canvas. This would be convenient when I need to see where the data is coming from and how it is transformed before ending up in Spotfire.
    almost 5 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration
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