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    Support Access to Multiple Python Environments / Repositories

    Enable Spotfire to connect to and utilize more than one Python environment (Python Service / repository) within a single deployment. Currently, Spotfire supports configuration of only a single Python environment. This limitation restricts scenario...
    5 months ago in Spotfire / Data Functions 0 Future Consideration
    105 VOTE

    Synchronous Data Function Execution

    Control order DF’s execute i.e. ability to ‘chain’ data functions in a sequence
    almost 4 years ago in Spotfire / Data Functions 2 Future Consideration

    Data Functions IDE / Integration

    Writing and debugging data functions is currently difficult. If we could have a better IDE for writing data functions in, or even the ability to write functions in Visual Studio Code and integrate this with Spotfire somehow would be very helpful.
    almost 4 years ago in Spotfire / Data Functions 2 Future Consideration
    135 VOTE

    Add Massive Parallel Processing (MPP) capability on Windows Platform

    Requesting Massive Parallel Processing (MPP) capability as a supported feature on Windows Platform. At the time of this request, this is only supported on Linux but it would be great to have the same feature supported on Windows Servers as well
    about 7 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / performance 2 Will not implement

    Encoding-sensitive log importing from BCP.exe

    bcp.exe is a Microsoft tool that outputs logs using the operating system's encoding (e.g., MS-932 on a Japanese OS). It appears that DV (via Data Ship or similar) does not specify the OS-native encoding when importing logs from this tool, resultin...
    22 days ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / JDBC / ODBC / ADO 0 To be Reviewed
    146 VOTE

    Version Control integration with Deployment Manager

    Deployment manager needs to be able to access resources that were checked in by Studio to deploy to higher level environments to promote resources from dev to test to prod.
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / deployment 7 Unlikely to implement

    Provide metrics for DV usage

    The metrics that are included in TDV out of the box are useless for longterm reporting of how TDV is being used by customers. There is a package available through Advanced Services called KPI metrics but it is not supported and we are having great...
    over 6 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / monitoring 3 Planning to implement

    Spotfire streaming data from Kafka.

    Dear Team We have Kafka server. We want to stream data from Kafka to Spotfire. Br, Neck
    29 days ago in Spotfire Streaming 0 To be Reviewed

    Web player support for data function properties

    The web player experience does not currently support the configuration of data function properties. This would be a helpful feature, especially for non-Windows users.
    2 months ago in Spotfire / Data Functions 0 To be Reviewed

    Don't execute data functions when required input data is empty

    Many data functions you want triggered from markings. However, when nothing is marked, empty inputs are sent to the DF which causes errors. So you have to create specific error handling code for TERR to detect # rows for input and send out empty d...
    almost 6 years ago in Spotfire / Data Functions 4 Future Consideration
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