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.


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

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Allow MQTT adapter to parse timestamps in local time without specifying a timezone suffix to each timestamp

We would like the MQTT Adapter to be able to interpret timestamps in local time without needing to explicitly state the timezone or UTC offset in each timestamp, but for the adapter to always interpret the timestamps as being in a specific timezon...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / AVEVA Adapter for MQTT 0 No status

Stream-level debugging

As a PI System Administrator, I'd like to be able to trace values being received, and subsequently being sent by the Adapter, similar to PI Interfaces. Having the ability to trace/log timestamps and values for specific streams would greatly help ...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / General 0 Future consideration

Allow default settings (eg. disable compression) for tags created by Adapters

We would like to be able to specify default settings for tags created by the adapters. This would include things such as disabling compression for tags on this adapter (without disabling it as the default for all new tags on the Data Archive). Thi...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / General 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

Adapters using Text parser be able to dynamically generate the stream name or ID based on fields of the text parsed

This could be a good feature for any adapters that uses the text parser. MQTT, SDF, Azure Event Hubs. When using JsonPath or Xpath to parse a file or payload the stream name and stream id have to be hardcoded their value cannot be based on a the v...
Randy Giguere over 1 year ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / General 0 No status

Allow PI Web API Admin Utility to run silently

We use the command following command to run the PI Web API Admin Utility silently in order to automate SSL certificate updates: OSIsoft.REST.Admin.exe --f=C:\temp\InstallationConfig.json --suppressUI=0 --verbose If the admin utility crashes, this ...
Guest 11 months ago in Developer Resources / General 1 No status

Better control and monitoring of usage

As a CONNECT data services administrator, I want to track daily streams accessed by both individual users and applications, so that I can better understand the usage incurred by each CONNECT consumer. Additionally, I need the ability to allocate u...
Max Mckay 6 months ago in General / Account Management 0 No status

Show all assets a stream is referenced on

When a stream is selected in the SDS explorer, include a tab in the stream information that lists all assets where that stream is referenced by a stream property. Include both the asset name (with link) and the stream property name. Streams may be...
Cynthia Bourne 6 months ago in Data Management & Storage / SDS Explorer 0 No status

Allow restricting access to the Adapter to only allow configuration by specific users

We want to make sure that we have more control over who can update an Adapter. Is there a way to add a login or other restriction to only permit certain users to be able to modify Adapters, similar to how, with PI Connectors, only specific Windows...
Daniel Lopez over 1 year ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / General 1 No status

Provide ability to custom order CONNECT folder list on Home page

The CONNECT folder list on the Home page is horizontally scrollable and each tile takes up a fair amount of space, so only 4-5 tiles can be seen at once. The tiles are ordered alphabetically and a large folder set requires clicking buttons several...
Cynthia Bourne 6 months ago in General / Account Management 0 No status