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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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OMF: Binary data format support

Provide a binary data format option in addition to JSON in the OSIsoft Message Format (OMF) spec.
Guest about 3 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 3 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 3 years ago in Developer Resources / Open Message Format (OMF) 0 Declined

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 3 years ago in Developer Resources / Open Message Format (OMF) 0 No status

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 2 years ago in Developer Resources / Open Message Format (OMF) 0 No status

Ban Russian industries using PI

Call for AEVA to exit Russian market immediately of obvious reasons, cancel product license and prevent existing users from accessing application. It is confirmed that PI still actively used on Yamal LNG, Arctic LNG2, Sakhalin LNG sites.
Guest about 1 year ago in CONNECT to PI 0 No status

OMF: Property Bags

Allow reuse of a set of properties for multiple type definitions in the OSIsoft Message Format (OMF) spec.
Guest about 3 years ago in Developer Resources / Open Message Format (OMF) 0 No status

GitHub samples need updates for OMF 1.2 spec with PI Web API

OMF 1.2 specification have been out now.However, the current samples for OMF w/ PI Web API (BasicAPI, ComplexDynamic and Bart Ingress ) only feature OMF 1.1 versions.PI Developers will need OMF 1.2 samples in GitHub so that they have a reference t...
Guest about 2 years ago in Developer Resources / Open Message Format (OMF) 1 No status

Clearly state that a Data message cannot include both a container ID and a type ID

Right now, the documentation: https://omf-docs.readthedocs.io/en/v1.0/Data_Messages.html Mentions that "For each object, either typeid or containerid must be specified". However, it does not clearly state that you CANNOT include both in a data m...
Guest about 3 years ago in Developer Resources / Open Message Format (OMF) 0 No status

OMF: Container-level overrides

Ability to override Type-level property keywords on a Container level.
Guest about 3 years ago in Developer Resources / Open Message Format (OMF) 0 Planned