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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.

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

Add ability to customize and reset CONNECT data services home page

There is currently no way to remove any of the tiles on the CONNECT data services home page - for example, I would like to remove the 'Latest Service Updates'. I would also like a 'reset to default' option that moves all tiles back to original loc...
Guest 7 months ago in General / Health & Manageability 0 No status

Add database filter on AFAnalysisService.QueryRuntimeInformation

Hello, Could it be possible to add a dedicated filter on dataabse for the method AFAnalysisService.QueryRuntimeInformation? Indeed, on large systems, the PI Analysis service timeout because the call is not enough efficient. In fact, the only way t...
Guest almost 2 years ago in Developer Resources / General 0 No status

Value retrieval methods applied to data in CONNECT

Asset Framework configuration for attributes with PI Point data reference with Value Retrieval Methods such as a an average over a time window need to be reflected in CONNECT as they are in PI Asset Framework.
Max McKay about 1 year ago in PI to CONNECT / General 0 No status

Make 'add data fields' popup in data view query editor wider

The Add Data Fields window that comes up in the data view query editor is very narrow, and with longer property names that have similar beginnings you may not be able to tell which field you are selecting. There is no way to make the window wider ...
Cynthia Bourne almost 2 years ago in Data Views / General 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 2 years ago in Developer Resources / Open Message Format (OMF) 0 No status

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 8 months ago in PI to CONNECT / General 0 No status

The ability to define the number of decimal points for each parameter in the DataView column.

Most Values in a Dataview column (streams) will have a limited number of decimals both when viewed, calculated or measured. Very few Values on ANY type of measurement or calculation will have an accuracy of more than 6 decimals but often 1-2 decim...
Hege Dammen 8 months ago in Data Views / General 0 No status

Use stream NAME instead of stream ID for the API call

Today hundreds of Users do simple queries to get multiple PI tags many times per day in their existing Cloud platform. Using the API call on CONNECT the users do not know the steam ID of a tag they only know the TAG NAME. As such, it is a signific...
Hege Dammen 8 months ago in Data Views / General 0 No status

Bulk API call should have the average and summarize the datapoints.

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Hege Dammen 8 months ago in Data Platform Integration / New Integrations 0 No status