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.


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Detect and monitor which OPC UA server the PI Adapter is connected to

When configuring a PI Adapter to leverage server-level redundancy, it is not currently possible to monitor which server instance the PI Adapter is connected to. Surfacing this information would allow server administrators to better monitor the hea...
Giulio Cattarin over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / AVEVA Adapter for OPC UA 3 Future consideration

Support OPC UA ReverseConnect

Support ReverseConnect, allowing for the connection to be establish from the more secure area where the OPC Server reside to the least secure area where the OPC Client / Adapter resides. This is implemented in many other client tools and SDK such...
Guest about 3 years ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / AVEVA Adapter for OPC UA 1 No status

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

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

Add parameter "Max Monitored Items per Subscription"

The connector for OPC UA includes a parameter “Max Monitored Items per Subscription”, which is very helpful in managing UA servers which may have limits on the maximum items per subscription. This parameter needs to also be available in the adapters.
Guest 10 months ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / AVEVA Adapter for OPC UA 3 Future consideration

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