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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accept relative time period as historical start time for transfer settings

Business requirement to re-transfer dataset due either to network or server related issue(s).
Glenn Moffett over 2 years ago in PI to CONNECT / General 1 No status

Better align AVEVA CONNECT data services Asset Type to AF template

Right now, PI to CONNECT agent creates empty asset types for the assets it creates.Additionally, if you connect multiple agents which have the same templates (or the same template names), these will all be created as empty asset types.If the Asset...
Rene Thomassen over 2 years ago in PI to CONNECT / General 2 No status

Provide alternative message to 'No value defined"

When querying AF Element Information certain values display: "No value defined." and customer reaction was that there was something not working correctly/error that needed to be investigated. Suggestion was to change text to either show the value ...
Glenn Moffett almost 2 years ago in PI to CONNECT / General 0 No status

Simplify the security configuration for OPC UA

The newer OPC UA protocols have stricter security standards, which is good, but that makes configuring connections more difficult, especially with regard to the need to put in tunneling and open ports. It should be easier to establish a secure con...
Guest 11 months ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / AVEVA Adapter for OPC UA 0 No status

AF Attribute not recongized in CONNECT transfer configuration if PI point data reference config string contains a datatype

We encountered an issue with PI to CONNECT (using current version of the Agent 2.2) not recognizing AF Attributes with PI Point Data References which have the pointtype in the data reference configuration. So that means if there is a config string...
Guest about 2 years ago in PI to CONNECT / General 0 No status

Better support of IP21 OPC UA Server with PI Adapter for OPC UA

We have been using the PI Adapter for OPC UA in its current version to collect data from IP21 OPC UA Server during a lighthouse project. However, the configuration was a bit cumbersome since the OPC UA Server of AspenTech uses an opaque mechanism ...
Hans-Otto Weinhold over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / AVEVA Adapter for OPC UA 0 No status

Use PI Server Alternate Display Name in stream naming pattern

The PI Server Alternate Display Name is only used to build the stream IDs. It would be better to use it in the stream naming pattern as well.
Clement Dekeyser almost 3 years ago in PI to CONNECT / General 0 No status

Seamless change of PI Server Alternate Display Name

When the PI Server Alternate Display Name is modified, new streams are created to receive live data while historical data remains only in the existing streams. It would be better to automate: the deletion of existing streams the backfilling of new...
Clement Dekeyser almost 3 years ago in PI to CONNECT / General 0 No status

More options when searching for PI Points

During a Lighthouse project a customer noted that they have a number of points in their data archive that are no longer on scan. It would be helpful, then, if the PI Point Search facilities in PI to CONNECT allowed use of the ‘scan on/off’ flag so...
Guest about 3 years ago in PI to CONNECT / General 0 No status

Add the option "Ignore Bad_WaitingForInitialData Status"

In the connectors there was the option "Ignore Bad_WaitingForInitialData Status", as described here. For gen 1 there was a need to edit the config files directly, and in gen 2 the option was integrated into the UI. Instead for the adapter I recent...
Guest almost 2 years ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / AVEVA Adapter for OPC UA 0 No status