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    Have the ability to perform Virtualization of Data without leaving platform

    Have the ability to perform Data Virtualization on the data sets without having to leave the platform.
    almost 4 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 1 Already exists

    Copy paste formula for the calculated column

    When we build/create a formula using calculated column, noticed that we are not able to copy the formula after we save it. I think it's very useful if we can copy the formula and paste it to the new calculated column when we needed. Especially whe...
    almost 8 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / data sources 0 Will not implement

    add function to convert integer to ascii character and vice versa

    Please add function to convert integer to ascii character and vice versa. Currently we use expression like below to do so, it's ugly & slow and can not cover all ascii chars. case when ([val]>=48) and ([val]<=57) then string([val] - 48) ...
    almost 4 years ago in Spotfire / Custom Expressions 1 Future Consideration

    Color by X-Axis of Heatmap

    It would be very useful to have small color blocks for the x-axis of a heatmap (for example, to show an additional parameter of the data like disease status in clustering)
    almost 4 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 3 Future Consideration

    XML Escape/Unescape Functions

    In order to facilitate interaction with XML based data sources (for example, REST endpoints returning XML data), it would be beneficial for TDV to have built-in functions for escaping, and unescaping, XML data. Currently, there is no functionality...
    almost 8 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / data sources 0 Will not implement

    Spotfire API provide access to the time a data source was loaded

    In Data Table Properties, the Source Information tab lists information about each data source in a data table, including the time it was loaded. I would like to retrieve the data loaded time using the Spotfire API, so I write an IronPython script ...
    almost 4 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Filter before Procedure Join

    We are increasing the use of Web Services, thus more procedures. It is very common for us to join a web service to a relational table, however the procedure join is executed for every row. Is it possible to update the query engine to apply a filte...
    almost 8 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / performance 0 Will not implement

    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

    ARCH/GARCH Models

    Add ability to compute ARCH/GARCH models. I don’t think Statistica has this this out of the box, but it can be added / configured via R / Python with I believe this is commonly used, especially with Financial Services,
    almost 8 years ago in Spotfire Statistica 0 To be Reviewed

    Ability to SFTP an extract from Automation Services Job Builder

    Customers require Business Objects reports to be SFTP'd. As we migrate the Bus Objs reports to Spotfire, we will need the same solution
    almost 4 years ago in Spotfire / Automation Services 0 Future Consideration
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