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    Add lightweight SQL workbench to Web UI for more advanced data analysts

    It would be awesome if the Web UI had some sort of lightweight SQL workbench to work with TDV data and share views. A lot of our data analysts find the Web UI cumbersome to use, and rather use SQL instead. Now we have to provide them with a separa...
    about 3 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / data catalog / metadata 0 Future Consideration

    Snowflake adapter - ability to override Snowflake session configuration

    Snowflake allows various overrides to be done at the session level, including: USE_CACHED_RESULT - https://docs.snowflake.com/en/sql-reference/parameters.html#use-cached-result QUERY_TAG - https://docs.snowflake.com/en/sql-reference/parameters.ht...
    about 6 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / data sources 0 Future Consideration

    Add support for common data definitions in the Business Directory

    My clients are requesting support for common data definitions in Business Directory. This should be a searchable repository that users can use to more easily understand the meaning of terms and data fields present as columns in the views and table...
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / data catalog / metadata 1 Future Consideration

    MacOS ODBC Client Drivers

    Is it possible to have macOS client drivers? Our company is increasing its use for apple products and we need the ability to support all our customers. -Chris
    almost 8 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / JDBC / ODBC / ADO 0 Future Consideration

    Add ability to programmatically determine what objects are included in a cache policy.

    Using a policy has exponentially reduced the time to complete the full cache refresh (from ~ 3 hours to just over 1 hour). However, there is no way to determine which views/objects have been added to a policy, thus managing the cache refresh proce...
    almost 8 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / caching 0 Future Consideration

    Add control of for the correct use of http status codes

    Follow W3C standards for http status codes. For instance if a published REST service doesn't receive a required input parameter, TDV currently returns a status code of 500, which is incorrect - it should return 412 or 422. The inability to send t...
    about 8 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / web services 0 Future Consideration

    Add an SPN option to pkg_import's -set flag, to allow Kerberos authentication to be changed on the data sources

    In the TDV AdministrationGuide.pdf, the section on Using the Package Import Utility provides a list of parameters for the Package Import utility (i.e. pkg_import.bat). They are to be supplied on the command line as: [-set <path> <data_ty...
    about 8 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / deployment 0 Future Consideration

    Add plan copy ability for deployment manager as well as sorting, site change and resource text entry

    Add a features to the deployment manager that make managing plans for multi-site deployments much simpler, efficient and less time consuming. There is a lot of duplication of work, slow resource selection and no ability to copy plans for more than...
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / management 0 Future Consideration

    Support for Azure Analysis Services (Tabular model) data source in TDV

    We need to be able to create connection towards Azure Analysis Services to read data from Tabular Models there.
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / data sources 0 Future Consideration

    Adaptive Query Engine Statistics

    Statistics for data-source tables are independent of the query being executed, and while heuristics can be used to guess the volume of data retrieved & processed by different portions of a query plan, if -- for a configurable time-window -- th...
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / performance 0 Future Consideration
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