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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.


This page is for feedback specifically for CONNECT. For links to our other feedback portals, please see RESOURCES below.

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Send only data that has changed.

When transferring data via satellite it is necessary to keep bandwidth usage to a bare minimum. Currently OMF must send all values regardless of whether they have changed or not. If it could send only the data parameters that have changed that wou...
Guest almost 4 years ago in Developer Resources / Open Message Format (OMF) 6 Declined

Increased Editability of Virtual Table Fields

Currently, the only editable field in the Virtual Table settings is the Refresh Interval because modifying other fields render the table invalid, and require re-initialization or rebuilding. Other fields like Retrieval Mode, Retrieval Interval, an...
Dennica Mitev 5 months ago in Data Platform Integration / Virtual Tables & Shares 0 No status

Allow Definition of Point Attributes via OMF to PI Web API

When creating containers via OMF the PI Points are created with default Point Attributes - if these need to be changed it is a manual process to subsequently change the attributes appropriately. As OMF solutions can be easily deployed it would be ...
Guest almost 4 years ago in Developer Resources / Open Message Format (OMF) 2 No status

Tableau Integration

Tighter product integration between Tableau and CONNECT data services. Note that CONNECT's APIs and data views can likely be used today to get data from Cds into Tableau.
Todd Brown about 1 year ago in Data Platform Integration / New Integrations 1 No status

Change schema name when publishing Virtual Tables to Databricks

Virtual Tables exposed to Databricks appear in Databricks using a unique ID as schema name, which is very cumbersome to use. It would be helpful to have the ability to specify the schema name
Roberto Serrano 8 months ago in Data Platform Integration / Virtual Tables & Shares 0 No status

databricks to CONNECT

Write data to CONNECT from databricks - including calculation results, model output.
Glenn Moffett 7 months ago in Data Platform Integration / New Integrations 0 No status

CONNECT to AVEVA System Platform

Provide an agent to push data down to AVEVA System Platform (similar to CONNECT to PI Agent) to get information which is generated by external applications (such as AVEVA Advanced Analytics) down to the SCADA / Process HMI in a simple way. As ther...
Hans-Otto Weinhold 9 months ago in Data Platform Integration / New Integrations 0 No status

OMF: Time Range / Events / Spans Support

Support the concept of time ranges / events EFs / spans as a pre-defined type in the OSIsoft Message Format (OMF) spec.
Guest almost 4 years ago in Developer Resources / Open Message Format (OMF) 7 Tell us more

Support an analogue to the "step" PI Point attribute when creating PI Points

Even though it will indeed be useful to be able to specify whether data should be retrieved in a step-wise fashion, for new PI Points (assuming you're writing data to a PI Connector), it's important to be able to specify that those tags should hav...
Guest almost 4 years ago in Developer Resources / Open Message Format (OMF) 1 In development

Allow partitioning configuration for virtual tables

Databricks allows for specification of partitioning configuration on a deltatable. In some cases, this can improve query performance when querying the deltashare. It would be nice if on the virtual table, partitioning options were available which ...
Adam Fink 8 months ago in Data Platform Integration / Virtual Tables & Shares 0 No status