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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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OIDC Authentication

Could you add to the current list of supported authentication methods ("basic" & "kerberos") the OIDC authentication ? This was asked as an example by one of my customers.
Guest 4 months ago in Developer Resources / PI Web API Samples 0 No status

Streaming API - for real time visualization

As a OCS real-time-visualization-client I require a Streaming API so that I can avoid continuously polling the REST API. Similar to the WSS Chanels in PI WebAPI Or something like PI WebAPI Stream Updates could also work
Guest over 2 years ago in Developer Resources / AVEVA™ Data Hub API 1 No status

Expose REST API for PI to OCS configuration

Provide a documented REST API for PI to OCS connection and data transfer configuration. This would enable scripting against these configurations, allowing users to update their data transfers automatically, and manage them in a customer-specific way.
Guest over 2 years ago in Developer Resources / AVEVA™ Data Hub API 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 over 1 year ago in Developer Resources / Open Message Format (OMF) 0 No status

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

Date format options - if not in America need alternatives

Agreed. We're not in the USA so need simple option for date formats.
Guest over 1 year ago in Developer Resources / General 0 No status

Support Claims Based Authentication in Vision

PI System Deployment Tests will not pass pre-checks in our system because we have configured PI Vision to use claims-based authentication. SDT should support this message as claims is an IT standard.
Guest over 2 years ago in Developer Resources / PI System Deployment Samples 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 over 2 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 1 year ago in Developer Resources / Open Message Format (OMF) 0 No status

Simplify access to objects using REST API

Citizen data scientists, IT professionals and general OCS users need to use REST API methods in 3rd party applications - including Power BI - to access data or explore data using OCS Portal API Console. Typically objects not "custom created - whe...
Guest over 2 years ago in Developer Resources / AVEVA™ Data Hub API 0 No status