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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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Search & View Data Across Namespaces & Communities

Ability to search and view information from data across namespaces and communities.
Guest about 2 years ago in General 0 Planned

Auto-Fill Tenant ID from Shared Links

When a user clicks a shared link to launch OCS, they may get prompted for the tenant ID. Although the information is embedded in the links, it's not obvious to many users. It will be a much friendlier user experience if the tenant ID can be popula...
Guest about 2 years ago in General 0 No status

Logging Improvements

When debugging an issue (user related or otherwise) via OCS Portal Log viewer, to aid debugging: 1. new log messages should be viewable as soon as possible (or an indication of the delay) because this speeds up the debugging process, 2. option to ...
Guest about 2 years ago in General 0 No status

Video Storage

The ability to store video files in OCS and relate the video to process data by timestamp.
Guest about 2 years ago in Data Management & Storage / Sequential Data Store (SDS) 0 No status

Easier Experience for Editing Stream Types

Stream Types are not editable in OCS SDS by design but it's painful to have to recreate a new type and do your work all over again when you need to make a change or forgot something. Please capture related scenarios you have around making change...
Guest about 2 years ago in Data Management & Storage / Sequential Data Store (SDS) 0 No status

Define UOM on SDS Type Field in OCS Portal

Ability to define Units of Measure on a Field in an SDS Type using the OCS Portal UI. Currently, the field type, name, and description can be edited, and fields can be marked as indexed. It is not possible in the UI to add UOM to a Field.
Guest about 2 years ago in Data Management & Storage / SDS Explorer 0 No status

Improve type dropdown for SDS fields

When creating a type using the OCS Portal, the SDS field "Type" dropdown is a flat list including dozens of options, half of which are array types. This could be better organized to make common types (e.g. Double, Int32, DateTime, and String) easi...
Guest about 2 years ago in Data Management & Storage / SDS Explorer 1 No status

Enhance Metadata Rules in the OCS Portal to Include Stream IDs

Currently, the OCS portal only exposes Stream Names when creating Metadata Rules, but the API exposes the Stream ID as well. It would be beneficial to create a Metadata Rule based on the Stream ID from the portal. Stream IDs are often more formu...
Guest about 2 years ago in Assets & Metadata Rules / Metadata Rules 0 No status

Duplicate SDS type

I am creating a large type (10+ properties), but am not sure exactly how I want the type to look. I would like to be able to easily in the portal duplicate an existing type and then make edits to it and save it as a new type, rather than having to...
Guest about 2 years ago in Data Management & Storage / SDS Explorer 0 No status

Implement a Display Digits setting for the OCS Portal to only render a select number of decimal places

The PI Data Archive allows for the setting of Display Digits so that clients such as System Management Tools only renders a certain number of decimal places, regardless of how many are actually stored in the archives. We would like to this functio...
Guest about 2 years ago in Data Management & Storage / SDS Explorer 0 No status