Folks,
I'm new to Knime but do have experience with other workflow tools (dare I say it, Pipeline Pilot Shhhh!).
I'm generally very happy with the Knime offerings but I have one serious niggle: lack of globally defined database connections. I've been using some of the database nodes and as I understand things, the only way to set the connection is as follows:
- Use the per-workflow defined credentials, which require user and password initially and password re-entry on subsequent Knime client start-up/execution.
- Define the user and password in the database node configuration. Apparently, this is less secure, since it stores the password in plain text on the hard disk (surely easily fixed?)
A third (and preferred) option would be to define a database connection globally and use that in a similar way to the workflow credentials. A useful extension to this would be server-side pooled connections when working on the Knime server.
Does anyone know of any plans to implement the above?
Cheers,
Jim