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    alexfeldStarter

    Advanced rules for scheduling jobsIMPLEMENTED

    Currently, there is no possibility to schedule and exclude specific days (eg. only run a job on a hourly basis for the first week of the month) to execute jobs. This is often necessary and the only way I was able to achieve it for now is to schedule on specific dates which is not scalable. It would be great to add more advanced scheduling options! 

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    Christian Hauggaard
    Forum|Forum|2 years ago
    erik.van.mastrigt
    TimeXtender Xpert
    erik.van.mastrigtTimeXtender Xpert

    Ingest instance execution log on table levelSUBMITTED

    Currently the execution log of an Ingest Transfer task is limited. Extracting in TimeXtender Classic with business units has for instance, the advantage of a gantt chart so one can see which tables take a long time to load.We have a transfer task that extracts 200+ tables, some of them are incremental. Currently the execution takes about 2 hours, but it is very hard to investigate which tables in particular consume the most time.It would be nice to have a more detailed log for Ingest instances, so you can see the execution time per table.

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    Christian Hauggaard
    Forum|Forum|2 years ago
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    Contributor
    KajEmergoContributor

    Execution gantt-chart with on-demand data sourcesSUBMITTED

    When you have a data warehouse execution that uses solely on-demand data sources, you might come across a rather odd gantt-chart in the execution log:The table has a large blank space because of the use of on-demand data sources. If I am not mistaken, the blank space represents the ODX transfers that are initiated as a result of the on-demand setting.What is the best way to monitor your DWH performance in this setting? The gantt-chart is a great tool to identify possible fixes in order to reduce the reload time of your DWH. In this case it becomes rather complicate to use it for that purpose.

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    K
    Contributor
    Forum|Forum|2 years ago
    rvgfox
    Problem Solver
    rvgfoxProblem Solver

    Notifications in ODX transfer task JobsIMPLEMENTED

    If we have a job scheduled with a ODX transfer task it’s not possible to get a notification email if the job finished with errors.I think that it’s necessary.

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    JTreadwell
    Forum|Forum|2 years ago
    erik.van.mastrigt
    TimeXtender Xpert
    erik.van.mastrigtTimeXtender Xpert

    Add Retries to JobsIMPLEMENTED

    In ODX Server v20 there is the option to restart a Transfer if failed, similar like the mechanism on Execution Packages. In TX/ODX Server v21 the scheduling of Transfers is handled by Jobs, but the option to restart a task if it fails is missing: Especially some of our REST API data sources return an error. The retry/restart option is crucial here.

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    JTreadwell
    Forum|Forum|2 years ago
    anders.e.jonsson
    Contributor
    anders.e.jonssonContributor

    Remove release number from the names of Timextender services in TimeXtender Data IntegrationSUBMITTED

    Hi,Would it be possible to remove the release number from the names of the Timxtender Windows services.It would it would help if the name to remain the same when using monitoring systems. For example OP5.The release number can still be in the description.There is no reason to have more than the latest version installed, right? Because you can still only run one version of each service on one server. And once you've upgraded, you can't go back.So existing services would be replaced with the new version during installation.BRAnders

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    anders.e.jonsson
    Contributor
    Forum|Forum|2 years ago
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    pontus.berglundContributor

    Double clicking tables in data lineage should jump to them in the GUIIMPLEMENTED

    In version 20.XX and previous, double clicking tables in the data lineage visualization made you jump to them in the GUI. It would be great to have this function added in verson 6XXX as well.It is both a useful tool for the developer, as well as an impressive feature to show in demos.To trace lineage in the current version (6284.1) you would manually have to find the table shown in the data lineage view, which in larger DW instances can be difficult.

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    Thomas Lind
    Forum|Forum|2 years ago
    rory.smith
    TimeXtender Xpert
    rory.smithTimeXtender Xpert

    Add instance name as item to lineage diagramsIMPLEMENTED

    I have 3 DWH instances that all contain the same table. If I generate lineage from the ODX, I cannot see which is which: It would be good to show the instance name and be able to filter by them.

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    Thomas Lind
    Forum|Forum|2 years ago
    rory.smith
    TimeXtender Xpert
    rory.smithTimeXtender Xpert

    Double clicking table insert or related table insert in lineage should jump to itemIMPLEMENTED

    When you run through lineage for data that involves a table insert or related table insert, clicking those does not highlight the object in the GUI. It only makes the connected tables bold in the lineage view. If you double click a default view or parameterised custom view, this does work.

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    Thomas Lind
    Forum|Forum|2 years ago
    devin.tiemens
    TimeXtender Xpert
    devin.tiemensTimeXtender Xpert

    Go-To Button in impact analysis or data lineage overviewIMPLEMENTED

    Hi,Wouldn't it be nice if we are able to go directly from the impact analysis or data lineage overwiew to the table or field you would like to zoom in/ or change? Actually the same as the "go to source field” option on a Copy From field but then within the data lineage overview.Kind regards,Devin

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    Thomas Lind
    Forum|Forum|2 years ago
    Dirk Meert
    Explorer
    Dirk MeertExplorer

    Can you give back click-through from the Lineage?IMPLEMENTED

    In the previous set-up (v 20.10.32.64 for example), it was possible to simply click-through from the lineage view to one of the objects on the line. A feature I found extremely handy.It seems to me that this functionality no longer exists in the all new TimeXtender.Will you be adding this feature again soon?Kind regards,Dirk Meert

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    Thomas Lind
    Forum|Forum|2 years ago
    bas.hopstaken
    TimeXtender Xpert
    bas.hopstakenTimeXtender Xpert

    Make Data Lineage work for aggregate tables (version V6XXX)IMPLEMENTED

    When using aggregate tables in version V6XXX, it is showing only the bottom up approach is not showing the source table of the aggregate table and the data source.This worked correctly in versions V20.10.x. 

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    Thomas Lind
    Forum|Forum|2 years ago
    rvgfox
    Problem Solver
    rvgfoxProblem Solver

    Show "Running" bars in Execution Overview GraphSUBMITTED

    In the Bar graph we can see only the task when it’s finish:It will be very usefull to see a bar for the task when it’s running (In green color for example) 

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    rvgfox
    Problem Solver
    Forum|Forum|2 years ago
    Jan Stroeve
    Contributor
    Jan StroeveContributor

    User defined key shortcutsSUBMITTED

    Add a functionality for the user to define custom key shortcuts for menu items. As some actions are done very frequently (e.g. previewing a table), it would be nice to make them a bit easier.

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    devin.tiemens
    TimeXtender Xpert
    Forum|Forum|2 years ago
    bas.hopstaken
    TimeXtender Xpert
    bas.hopstakenTimeXtender Xpert

    Go to source table from Execution Queue windowSUBMITTED

    When you add a list of tables in the execution queue and a reload is failed, you can see the error message. But you must manually scroll/find the table to fix the error.It would be great if there is an option to go to the source table from the execution queue window.  

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    bas.hopstaken
    TimeXtender Xpert
    Forum|Forum|2 years ago
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    Starter
    helgilogasonStarter

    Transfer task prompt when dragging a table from Ingest instanceSUBMITTED

    When dragging a table from the Ingest instance to the Prepare instance it would be extremely useful if TDI could check if the table is included in a transfer task. If not then it would generate a pop-up window asking if the user would like to create new transfer task and/or add the table to an existing transfer task.

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    Starter
    Forum|Forum|2 years ago
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    Explorer
    mark.beedleExplorer

    SSAS Tabular Security Filter/RLS on BI-Directional FiltersIMPLEMENTED

    Power BI and SSAS Tabular allow you to use a setting to apply Row Level Security on relationships that are bi-directional, or filter both tables.  This feature is needed in TimeXtender's semantic layer.

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    Christian Hauggaard
    Forum|Forum|2 years ago
    daniel
    TimeXtender Xpert
    danielTimeXtender Xpert

    General Data Lake / File location ConnectorSUBMITTED

    Dear all,What would greatly improve the connectors in the ODX is a connector which would look at a folder / container and copy all the files in the container / file location to the Data Lake in (Delta) parquet format.My client has a lot of different data files (csv / excel / flat files) which land dat different moment in time which all ‘just’ need to be transferred to the TX eviroment (read: converted into parquet / delta / SQL table) and then they should be selectable from the ODX to be transferred to the DSA.I know that in ADF these kinds of loops can be made, but It would be great if TX offers such a connector.

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    daniel
    TimeXtender Xpert
    Forum|Forum|2 years ago
    rvgfox
    Problem Solver
    rvgfoxProblem Solver

    Add an option to force a full load in the "Deploy and/or Execute" dialog boxSUBMITTED

    I suggest something like this:If it’s selected it will do a Full Load in all the tables, including the incremental tables.Now it’s crazy to do that if we want fully load only one table.

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    rory.smith
    TimeXtender Xpert
    Forum|Forum|2 years ago
    daniel
    TimeXtender Xpert
    danielTimeXtender Xpert

    Instance Import / template importSUBMITTED

    Dear all,I've always found it a great feature in TimeXtender Classic to be able to export your project and then import it again.What I think would be a great feature is to be able to have a instance, let say you've created a Prepare instance on ‘Exact Online', and TDI lets you import and merge the Exact Online instance with your current Prepare instance.This would open up a lot of possibilities with enabling new clients with instances that you've already created. This would also open up the possibility of ‘sharing’ templates of certain standard sources so you don't have to build everything from scratch.

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    daniel
    TimeXtender Xpert
    Forum|Forum|2 years ago
    rvgfox
    Problem Solver
    rvgfoxProblem Solver

    External Executables OrganizationSUBMITTED

    As you can see in the image we can have many External Executables. It would be nice to be able organizate it in folders.  

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    rvgfox
    Problem Solver
    Forum|Forum|2 years ago
    tld
    Contributor
    tldContributor

    Add the option to change collation on Power BI Premium semantic layer endpointSUBMITTED

    Sometimes, you can experience wrong/strange sortings of your textual data in the semantic model. This is caused by the collation of the Power BI Premium endpoint not being set to what you would usually do in your geography had it been a regular tabular analysis services endpoint. According to this: https://data-goblins.com/power-bi/case-specific it should be possible to change the collation – although not through the standard interfaces, but only through Tabular Editor or directly editing the file. I would like to see TimeXtender added to that list. 

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    tld
    Contributor
    Forum|Forum|2 years ago
    rory.smith
    TimeXtender Xpert
    rory.smithTimeXtender Xpert

    Allow control of threading to improve Ingest transfer task performanceSUBMITTED

    When running TimeXtender in a scenario with ADF-enabled Ingest server you will find that a single pipeline with merge transfer is used on execution. Handling in the DSA etc. will only start when this merge transfer is fully complete. This means executions in the new release are less performant than they could be. Perhaps there is one table that takes 2 hours to copy blocking execution on a very powerful SQL instance hosting the Prepare instance where the faster tables have expensive cleansing that could be run in the meantime.The idea is to allow a number of pipelines to be defined, where TimeXtender can allocate transfers across them similar to how this is done in threading. This way Prepare instance execution of tables allocated to a 'faster’ pipeline can proceed while some of the longer Ingest instance → Prepare instance data movements are still being handled by a 'slower’ pipeline.Execution management should then take transfer and cleanse times into account to make a smart decision on allocating tables to different merge pipelines with the goal of reaching the shortest overal execution time possible.

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    andrew.gebhard
    TimeXtender Xpert
    Forum|Forum|2 years ago
    andrew.gebhard
    TimeXtender Xpert
    andrew.gebhardTimeXtender Xpert

    Better representation of Ingest Merge Transfer Tasks in Task Overview LogsSUBMITTED

    Hi team, When executing multiple tables in a data area that are using ADF for Ingest instance → data-area transfers, one ‘Ingest Merge Transfer’ task is often created. This is not represented in the Gantt chart:In practice this means that the logs for many of my execution packages are filled with predominantly white space. This also does not allow me to see any threading that might take place to allow more efficient data processing, but judging by the white space and the behavior of the cleansing tasks, I do not believe threading is taking place. I would like to see more representation (any representation) of these transfer tasks in the gantt chart and execution logging.  Kind regards,Andrew - E-mergo 

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    andrew.gebhard
    TimeXtender Xpert
    Forum|Forum|2 years ago
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    Contributor
    spenningContributor

    Measure category in Deliver instance?SUBMITTED

    Hi, With version 6536.1, I am running into an issue in which I am trying to create a measure that has a specific data category. I think this is not possible yet in Timextender Data Integration, but maybe I am missing something. What I am looking for is similar to what you can find in [Edit] options for a semantic field as shown here below [Edit] for semantic fieldNonetheless, we cannot do this for a custom measure because the option does not exist. [Edit] for custom measureIn this scenario, I want to create a measure to make a image-url, however this is not possible now. In Power BI this is possible as can be seen in this article: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/transform-model/desktop-measures#data-categories-for-measuresTemporary fix:As a temporary fix, I now have to recreate the measure as a column in one of my tables in the SSL. Which is fine in this scenario, but could be troublesome with other more complicated scenario's 

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    Thomas Lind
    Forum|Forum|2 years ago

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