# Product Ideas
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## [About the Product Ideas category](https://community.exasol.com/t/about-the-product-ideas-category/30)
**Author:** [@florian\_wenzel](https://community.exasol.com/u/florian_wenzel)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [April 30, 2025, 5:40pm UTC](https://community.exasol.com/t/about-the-product-ideas-category/30 "2025-04-30T17:40:08Z")
We want to hear your ideas and feature requests. Please describe your idea as detailed as possible to give us some context. Reply to existing ideas that are also of interest to you. It would be helpful if you can provid…
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## [OpenID authentication including scope](https://community.exasol.com/t/openid-authentication-including-scope/304)
**Author:** [@peterkioko](https://community.exasol.com/u/peterkioko)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [August 18, 2026, 2:30pm UTC](https://community.exasol.com/t/openid-authentication-including-scope/304 "2026-08-18T14:30:34Z")
Hi @madeleine\_corneli , We give each human two users in Exasol, one for when they connect from an AI-related app (e.g. via MCP) and one when connecting from a non-AI app or directly. When connecting from an AI-ish app w…
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## [Using query compiler output to guide query resource allocation](https://community.exasol.com/t/using-query-compiler-output-to-guide-query-resource-allocation/236)
**Author:** [@peterkioko](https://community.exasol.com/u/peterkioko)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [October 17, 2025, 12:08pm UTC](https://community.exasol.com/t/using-query-compiler-output-to-guide-query-resource-allocation/236 "2025-10-17T12:08:29Z")
A performance suggestion: Within a consumer group a long running query gets roughly half the resources when there is also a continuous stream of very short/simple queries running. This can lead to idle CPU/Resources bec…
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## [Support IMPORT-FROM-EXA connection string arguments](https://community.exasol.com/t/support-import-from-exa-connection-string-arguments/199)
**Author:** [@peterkioko](https://community.exasol.com/u/peterkioko)\
**Replies:** 7\
**Last updated:** [August 1, 2025, 12:45pm UTC](https://community.exasol.com/t/support-import-from-exa-connection-string-arguments/199 "2025-08-01T12:45:57Z")
Use Case: We have 2 Exasol instances. There are cases where the local instance pulls data from the remote instance via an IMPORT-FROM-EXA statement. Sometimes the statement that’s executed on the remote instance is que…
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## [Allowing virtual schemas to pushdown to other virtual schemas](https://community.exasol.com/t/allowing-virtual-schemas-to-pushdown-to-other-virtual-schemas/176)
**Author:** [@peterkioko](https://community.exasol.com/u/peterkioko)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [June 24, 2025, 2:11pm UTC](https://community.exasol.com/t/allowing-virtual-schemas-to-pushdown-to-other-virtual-schemas/176 "2025-06-24T14:11:34Z")
At least twice in the last few months I’ve run in to use cases where I wanted to have one virtual schema reference another one in the pushdown SQL and the virtual schema framework does not currently allow this. Usually …
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## [Automated distribution and partition key managment](https://community.exasol.com/t/automated-distribution-and-partition-key-managment/174)
**Author:** [@peterkioko](https://community.exasol.com/u/peterkioko)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [June 16, 2025, 9:57pm UTC](https://community.exasol.com/t/automated-distribution-and-partition-key-managment/174 "2025-06-16T21:57:47Z")
Exasol’s automated index management is a great time saver. It would be great if distribution and partition key management was likewise automated. In the case of large tables with multiple foreign keys to other large ta…
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## [Analytic UDFs: Support for the partitioning clause](https://community.exasol.com/t/analytic-udfs-support-for-the-partitioning-clause/108)
**Author:** [@slavik\_taubkin](https://community.exasol.com/u/slavik_taubkin)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [June 5, 2025, 10:12am UTC](https://community.exasol.com/t/analytic-udfs-support-for-the-partitioning-clause/108 "2025-06-05T10:12:41Z")
Dear Exasol, the documentation provides an example of an analytic user-defined aggregate function my\_sum: UDF Scripts - Examples | Exasol DB Documentation This function can be executed using the following syntax: SELE…