Data services feedback portal

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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.

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Open Message Format (OMF)

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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 2 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 2 years ago in Developer Resources / Open Message Format (OMF) 2 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 2 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 2 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 2 years ago in Developer Resources / Open Message Format (OMF) 1 Declined

OMF: Binary data format support

Provide a binary data format option in addition to JSON in the OSIsoft Message Format (OMF) spec.
Guest about 2 years ago in Developer Resources / Open Message Format (OMF) 0 Declined

OMF: Ability to patch data messages

Add the ability to provide partial information for an existing data point. This is meant as a partial update which replaces values for some properties of a type without affecting others.
Guest about 2 years ago in Developer Resources / Open Message Format (OMF) 0 Planned

OMF: the possibility to set/create security settings (groups …) by using OMF

After creating Elements and Tags in AF by using OMF standard, I don´t want to manually configure security settings in AF. The possibility to set/create security settings (groups …) by only using OMF standard would be very helpfull.
Guest about 2 years ago in Developer Resources / Open Message Format (OMF) 0 Declined

Improve throughput

I am not sure if this is a limitation connected to the OMF, WebAPI, or https itself, but in the manual it is given that the maximum message size is 192KB. I am aware that compression is recommended and applied by default by the adapters. For the r...
Guest about 1 year ago in Developer Resources / Open Message Format (OMF) 0 No status

OMF should accept the use of special characters like / : @ ! + % < > ( ) when writing to PI WebAPI OMF endpoint

The OMF 1.1 spec does not allow certain special characters that are indeed accepted in the PI Core system like these here: / : @ ! + % < > ( ) When OMF is used to write to PI Core via the PI WebAPI OMF endpoint, this hinders the migration p...
Guest about 2 years ago in Developer Resources / Open Message Format (OMF) 0 No status