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CONNECT 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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Allow default settings (eg. disable compression) for tags created by Adapters

We would like to be able to specify default settings for tags created by the adapters. This would include things such as disabling compression for tags on this adapter (without disabling it as the default for all new tags on the Data Archive). Thi...
Guest almost 4 years ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / General 0 No status

Provide GUI for Configuration

Edge Data Store would require a GUI for configuration and health status to work more efficiently to set it up with too many efforts. The GUI should allow to set up the connection to the Data sources of the included PI Adapters, provide OPC UA brow...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ Edge Data Store / General 0 No status

Kerberos Authentication from EDS to PI

Submitting on behalf of a customer concerned about meeting stringent security requirements. Kerberos is a staple in their security architecture and the would very much like to incorporate it here.
Guest almost 4 years ago in AVEVA™ Edge Data Store / Egress 0 Future consideration

Stream-level debugging

As a PI System Administrator, I'd like to be able to trace values being received, and subsequently being sent by the Adapter, similar to PI Interfaces. Having the ability to trace/log timestamps and values for specific streams would greatly help ...
Guest almost 4 years ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / General 0 Future consideration

Adapters using Text parser be able to dynamically generate the stream name or ID based on fields of the text parsed

This could be a good feature for any adapters that uses the text parser. MQTT, SDF, Azure Event Hubs. When using JsonPath or Xpath to parse a file or payload the stream name and stream id have to be hardcoded their value cannot be based on a the v...
Randy Giguere over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / General 0 No status

Allow EdgeCmd to set null or empty string parameter values

As per KB000042993, setting parameters with EdgeCmd that are <null> or "" (empty string) is not possible. Instead the JSON configuration file must be created and used in place. It would be more intuitive if executing commands such as: edgecm...
Mike Horrocks about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ Edge Data Store / General 1 No status

Permit non-protected references

The secrets references is a very useful addition but they are only permitted for "protected" parameters. It would be useful to also create references for non-protected parameters. Using references for non-protected parameters would help with creat...
Mike Horrocks about 3 years ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / General 1 No status

Conditional Data Egress for Edge Data Store

Scenario: In a remote monitoring scenario, Edge Data Store is collecting data through OPC UA or ModbusTCP with a certain sampling rate (assumingly 1s). For normal operations, EDS shall egress only an aggregated one minute value of all analogue str...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ Edge Data Store / Egress 0 No status

Allow restricting access to the Adapter to only allow configuration by specific users

We want to make sure that we have more control over who can update an Adapter. Is there a way to add a login or other restriction to only permit certain users to be able to modify Adapters, similar to how, with PI Connectors, only specific Windows...
Daniel Lopez almost 3 years ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / General 2 No status

Use EDS to download OCS and PI data for use as a local data cache for Data Science in tools like R-Studio and Jupyter Notebook

As a data scientist, I would like to set up types, streams, and query data from OCS to use locally on my desktop in data science languages (e.g. R, Python) and tools I use (R-Studio, Jupyter Notebook) so that I can rapidly try different numerical ...
Gregg Le Blanc almost 4 years ago in AVEVA™ Edge Data Store / Analytics & Calculations 1 Tell us more