TIBCO Spotfire OCF Connector Release Notes

Alation Cloud Service Applies to Alation Cloud Service instances of Alation

Customer Managed Applies to customer-managed instances of Alation

Core Connector Core connectors are included with all Alation platform tiers (subject to each tier’s connector limits) and are fully supported by Alation.

July 15, 2026

TIBCO Spotfire OCF Connector: Version 4.0.0

Enhancements

Improved Performance

The connector includes the following performance improvements: (AL-253968)

  • Improved XML parsing for large files.

  • Support for sequential and folder-wise report streaming.

  • Optimized handling of large JSON responses.

  • Support for streaming of calculated columns - Calculated columns (column measures) from TIBCO Spotfire, along with their expressions, are now streamed to the corresponding report column in Alation.

  • Support for single download for Spotfire adapter reports.

  • Support for immediate streaming of file system and ConnectTo data sources.

  • Smarter data source dependency handling.

  • Streaming of SBDF sub-reports.

Fixed Issues

Unable to Trace Broken, Missing, or Inaccessible SBDF Files

If an SBDF file is missing, broken, or inaccessible, it is not retrievable.

This issue is resolved. Now, its title and path are captured as a source comment on the associated report for traceability. (AL-253968)

December 05, 2024

TIBCO Spotfire: Version 2.3.0

Enhancements

Parse Connection Details with Period (“.”)

The connector now extracts catalog, schema, and tables from an API response and sets the data in the Catalog.Schema.Table format according to the datasource. (AL-180047)

Ignore Unsupported Datasources

The connector now ignores the following unsupported datasources (AL-180047):

  • DataTableDataSource and ShapeFileDataTableDataSource

  • Path formats without any extension

  • TMP path formats

Removal of Unused Datasource Connection Parameters

The following unused parameters are now removed from the Alation UI for the connector (AL-180047):

  • Spotfire Database Name

  • Spotfire Database Server

  • Spotfire Database Username

  • Spotfire Database Password

  • Spotfire Database Type

Fixed Issues

Connector Installation Fails on Agent and Cloud

Connector installation fails on both Alation Agent and Alation Cloud Services.

This issue is now resolved (AL-179642)

July 24, 2024

TIBCO Spotfire OCF Connector: Version 2.1.0

Enhancements

TIBCO Spotfire OCF Connector supports (AL-164298):

  • Folder Level Permissions for Extraction

    Users can now grant permission to access the parent folder and its subfolders, including the root folder, for extraction.

  • DXP Based on MultiSource

    TIBCO Spotfire now supports extraction of DXP reports based on multisource (SBDF, IL, CSV, XLS, Text, and Database) and SPDF reports as BI reports.

  • Filter Extraction

    TIBCO Spotfire now supports selection of projects for extraction (selective extraction).

Fixed Issues

TIBCO Spotfire Server Accepts IP Addresses as URI

TIBCO Spotfire Server accepts only an IP Address in the JDBC URI field.

The issue is now fixed. The connector now accepts hostname and port as part of the JDBC URI. (AL-154341)

Unable to Use the Open with BI Server Functionality

The Open with Server BI button on the UI for the TIBCO Spotfire connector works only at the top-most level (BI Server); at lower levels, it maps to incorrect URLs.

The issue is now fixed. (AL-160748)

Metadata Extraction Fails After Granting Permission to New Folders

After granting permissions to access new folders for extraction, MDE fails with the following error: Error Fetching Data from Tibco SPOTFIRE

The issue is now resolved. (AL-162672)