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 Adapter for OPC UA should poll a series of items based on a trigger events

Same as the PI Interface for OPC DA feature with "Trigger Tags", the idea is to poll for updates on a series of item streams (tags) only when a certain item stream updates. The benefit of this is to create timestamp alignments between a series of...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / AVEVA Adapter for OPC UA 0 No status

Allow users to find AF element templates more easily

As I add new elements to a data transfer, I want to easily find an element template by typing its first few letters or expanding the template tree (organized by inheritance). Currently, all I can do is scrolling down a list of templates, which can...
Clement Dekeyser about 2 months ago in PI to CONNECT / General 0 No status

PI Adapter for OPC UA Array Support

As a PI System Administrator, I would like for the PI Adapter for OPC UA to support array data types from the OPC UA Server. A large amount of our data may be contained within arrays on our OPC UA Server, so we would not currently be able to colle...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / AVEVA Adapter for OPC UA 6 No status

Download your data

I would like to easily download stream data from a CONNECT UI into a format that can be viewed in Excel SO THAT my partner can easily access the data. Community should be supported so that my partner can do this themselves.
Todd Brown 4 months ago in General / Data Egress 1 No status

Support security baselining

As a PI administrator, I need to baseline the security configuration of my PI System to ensure OSIsoft security best practices are followed. Below is a list of requested features. Baseline verification (read-only) for PI Data Archive: - PI Data ...
Guest over 2 years ago in Developer Resources / PI System Deployment Tests 2 No status

Allow changing the owner of an OMF Connection using the portal or API

"As an administrator or privileged user, I would like to be able to use the CDS portal or API to change the owner of an OMF Connection" The user who initially creates an OMF Connection is permanently the owner and any connection through this endpo...
Sam Pride 3 months ago in General / Security 0 No status

Improve error messages when OMF ingress fails due to permissions errors

Applications ingesting data into Connect Data Services via OMF inherit their permissions from the user who created the OMF Connection their client is mapped to. If that user is removed from Connect, then these applications will be unable to write ...
Michael Tippett 3 months ago in General / Account Management 0 No status

SDS Explorer - Customize Columns

I would like to be able to add custom columns by specifying a metadata key. This is especially important in Communities. Since we do not have the benefit of Assets in Communities, Stream meta data can be used make associations and to search and fi...
John Marriott 28 days ago in Data Management & Storage / SDS Explorer 0 No status

Send only data that has changed.

When transferring data via satellite it is necessary to keep bandwidth usage to a bare minimum. Currently OMF must send all values regardless of whether they have changed or not. If it could send only the data parameters that have changed that wou...
Guest over 2 years ago in Developer Resources / Open Message Format (OMF) 6 Declined

PI to Connect (formerly Pi to OCS) agent needs to be collective aware

The PI to Connect agent is not collective aware. Instead, only a single archive can be mapped to the agent. Please allow the PI to Connect agent to utilize collectives. This increases the system's overall resiliency.
Guest over 2 years ago in PI to CONNECT / General 2 Future consideration