Data services feedback portal

Welcome to our feedback site!


We created this site to hear your enhancement ideas, suggestions and feedback about CONNECT products and services. All of the feedback you share here is monitored and reviewed by the CONNECT product managers.

To start, take a look at the ideas in the list below and VOTE for your favorite ideas submitted by other users. POST your own idea if it hasn’t been suggested yet. Include COMMENTS and share relevant business case details that will help our product team get more information on the suggestion. Please note that your ideas and comments are visible to all other users.


This page is for feedback specifically for CONNECT data services. For links to our other feedback portals, please see RESOURCES below.

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Send only data that has changed.

When transferring data via satellite it is necessary to keep bandwidth usage to a bare minimum. Currently OMF must send all values regardless of whether they have changed or not. If it could send only the data parameters that have changed that wou...
Guest about 3 years ago in Developer Resources / Open Message Format (OMF) 6 Declined

Allow Definition of Point Attributes via OMF to PI Web API

When creating containers via OMF the PI Points are created with default Point Attributes - if these need to be changed it is a manual process to subsequently change the attributes appropriately. As OMF solutions can be easily deployed it would be ...
Guest about 3 years ago in Developer Resources / Open Message Format (OMF) 2 No status

Support Fixed-Time Value Retrieval in Data Views Across DST Transitions

Currently, when plotting interpolated Data Views that span Daylight Saving Time (DST) transitions, the returned values shift by one hour in alignment with the clock change. This behavior can lead to inconsistencies in time-based analyses where a f...
Jose Sanchez 5 months ago in Data Views / General 0 No status

OMF: Time Range / Events / Spans Support

Support the concept of time ranges / events EFs / spans as a pre-defined type in the OSIsoft Message Format (OMF) spec.
Guest about 3 years ago in Developer Resources / Open Message Format (OMF) 7 Tell us more

Support an analogue to the "step" PI Point attribute when creating PI Points

Even though it will indeed be useful to be able to specify whether data should be retrieved in a step-wise fashion, for new PI Points (assuming you're writing data to a PI Connector), it's important to be able to specify that those tags should hav...
Guest about 3 years ago in Developer Resources / Open Message Format (OMF) 1 In development

OMF: Swagger Specification

I think it would be beneficial to have a Swagger Specification for OMF similar to what currently exists for the PI Web API. As a programmer, I would like to be able to reduce startup time by having a pre-existing libraries that allow me to reduce ...
Guest about 3 years ago in Developer Resources / Open Message Format (OMF) 1 Declined

Search TAG parameter by name

It is not intuitive how to easily search Asset and or Tag parameters by name in CDS.
Hege Dammen 9 months ago in Data Views / General 0 No status

The ability to define the number of decimal points for each parameter in the DataView column.

Most Values in a Dataview column (streams) will have a limited number of decimals both when viewed, calculated or measured. Very few Values on ANY type of measurement or calculation will have an accuracy of more than 6 decimals but often 1-2 decim...
Hege Dammen 5 months ago in Data Views / General 0 No status

Use stream NAME instead of stream ID for the API call

Today hundreds of Users do simple queries to get multiple PI tags many times per day in their existing Cloud platform. Using the API call on CONNECT the users do not know the steam ID of a tag they only know the TAG NAME. As such, it is a signific...
Hege Dammen 5 months ago in Data Views / General 0 No status

Understand replicated AF derived element template and elements and dynamically include

Customer has 1 base element template, with multiple templates derived from the base template. Data View is required to include all derived elements from that base element template Request is to dynamically update a data view based upon the assets ...
Glenn Moffett 10 months ago in Data Views / General 0 No status