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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PI to CONNECT

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

select element attributes to include in transfer

manage transfer shape and size
Glenn Moffett over 2 years ago in PI to CONNECT / General 2 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 7 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 7 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 7 months ago in PI to CONNECT / Help / Documentation / Videos 0 No status

Allow Configuration of PI to CONNECT Proxy Settings

Allow for manual configuration of proxy settings for the PI to CONNECT Agent. Items such as the endpoint to use as well as how to authenticate (default credentials, specified username/password).
Guest about 3 years ago in PI to CONNECT 0 No status

Enable Dynamic Transfer Selection Criteria that PI to CONNECT periodically re-evaluates

Have an option such that the transfer selection criteria are dynamically evaluated. Example: User selects AF root node Chooses "all elements" below that node Rather than explicit selection of add elements, evaluate dynamically so that as elements ...
Brian Deslatte over 1 year ago in PI to CONNECT / General 0 No status

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

Allow administrators to change which CONNECT tenant/Namespace of the agent

As an administrator, the only mechanism to change the tenant or namespace of the installed agent is to completely uninstall and reinstall the agent. You can remove the agent from the Data Services Agent screen, but the Agent Configuration doesn't ...
Sam Pride 5 months ago in PI to CONNECT / 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 10 months ago in PI to CONNECT / General 0 No status