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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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 documentation on architectural best practice

When setting up PI to Connect Agent transfers, we need to emphasize in the documentation that we recommend installation of the PI Agent on the same network, and in the same physical location, but not on the same server as the PI server it will be ...
Hege Dammen 9 months ago in PI to CONNECT / Help / Documentation / Videos 0 No status

Automatically detect new AF Elements and replicate them to CONNECT

As an AF Administrator, when I add new equipment to our plant and create new elements/attributes in AF to represent that equipment, I want that to be automatically replicated to CONNECT so I don't have to manually update a PI to CONNECT transfer t...
Guest about 3 years ago in PI to CONNECT 2 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

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

Allow NaN value or NULL

Currently, when sending PI data to CONNECT data services, if an atribute has NaN as value, the whole asset is removed from the transfer. Would like to support NaN or have NULL values in CONNEC
Max McKay over 1 year ago in PI to CONNECT / General 0 In development