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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Select subset of element attributes in PI to Connect transfer configuration

Hello, In order to set-up a small PoC use case on our site, we wanted to transfer a "selected" set of AF element attributes into AVEVA Connect, in order to integrate it further with our Databricks environment. However, we are forced to transfer th...
Steven Bouillart 4 months ago in PI to CONNECT / General 0 No status

Support for Stream ID Changes Across Environments

Currently, a customer has set up a new PI Data Archive to test the Communities feature in CONNECT Data Services. This new PI Data Archive is in a different environment from their production system. After testing, the customer is satisfied with the...
Willy Seah 4 months ago in PI to CONNECT / General 0 No status

Better control and monitoring of usage

As a CONNECT data services administrator, I want to track daily streams accessed by both individual users and applications, so that I can better understand the usage incurred by each CONNECT consumer. Additionally, I need the ability to allocate u...
Max McKay about 1 year ago in General / Account Management 0 No status

Enable Dynamic Transfer Selection Criteria that PI to CONNECT periodically re-evaluates

Have an option such that the transfer selection criteria are dynamically evaluated. Example: User selects AF root node Chooses "all elements" below that node Rather than explicit selection of add elements, evaluate dynamically so that as elements ...
Brian Deslatte over 1 year ago in PI to CONNECT / General 0 No status

Alert if ingress detected to be in a bad state

During 2 recent lighthouse projects, most recently with Kimball Electronics, the machine hosting the PI to CONNECT agent experienced a reboot due to patch installations. PI to CONNECT didn't properly restart (we'll investigate that separately) and...
Guest over 1 year ago in PI to CONNECT / General 0 No status

Add ability to handle exception point type changes 

Tags from data sources can change point type for whatever reason. When tags are initially added to the transfer, a point type for that tag is created. If for any reason, the point type changes, it will cause an error in connect and the transfer wi...
Hege Dammen 9 months ago in PI to CONNECT / General 0 No status

Add ability to select individual PI tags from UI 

We were able to get around this (with help of Glenn and Fabio) by utilizing hidden API endpoint which allow us to add Pi Tags by PointID. Customer had 3000 tags (no AF configured) in an excel sheet, attempting to search for these returned 15,...
Hege Dammen 9 months ago in PI to CONNECT / General 0 No status

Label the namespace on usage records and credit transactions

Both in the Credit Report and the Resource Usage Report pages of CONNECT there is a "Folder" column that is not populated for CONNECT data services credit transactions and usage records. Having this level of awareness on charges and usage would al...
Landry Khounlavong 10 months ago in General / Account Management 0 No status

Launch history recovery data transfers in steps

When we want to backfill all data from a PI Server into CONNECT Data Services, this could be long and painful. A single data transfer to perform such for a few years may take weeks. It would be good to have the ability to specify an "endtime" alon...
Christian Leroux 5 months ago in PI to CONNECT / General 0 No status

Exception and compression settings as stream metadata

PI to CONNECT automatically creates metadata for some tag properties such as pointsource, instrumentttag or exdesc. It would be useful if PI to CONNECT could also create metadata for exception and compression settings. This would help data consume...
Clement Dekeyser over 1 year ago in PI to CONNECT / General 1 No status