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    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

    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

    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

    Box Connector Request

    Users can upload documents in Box and import the files in Spotfire using the connector
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    Allow SQL queries to select columns based on Spotfire input

    Certain data lake solutions are optimized for column access (e.g. Google's BigQuery). Trying to access a column in BQ using Spotfire fails because a string literal is the only option for the variable. If a second variable option was available that...
    about 4 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    Add support for passthrough queries to CData Couchbase driver

    CData for Couchbase supports query passthrough. TDV does not take advantage of this feature. As a result, we have to pull millions of records from the database instead of pulling back an aggregated summary table. Please add this feature to TDV CDa...
    over 6 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / JDBC / ODBC / ADO 0 To be Reviewed

    Delegate CIFS to sharepoint online

    Now,The SharePoint online Kerberos delegation is not working cause we cannot setup CIFS for fileshare. It would be great if we can setup CIFS to SharePoint online for refresh data on web player. https://support.tibco.com/s/article/Constrained-Kerb...
    almost 6 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration
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