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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Delete events in data services for the reload time period before doing a reload of a thread that creates events

Currently if you reload a thread that creates events and sends them to data services, the system will not delete the events that are no longer applicable in data services before writing a new set of events. This creates duplicate events during the...
Jessica Rammo about 2 months ago in AVEVA™ Advanced Analytics 0 Needs review

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 Adaptors to run in Docker

Allow Adaptors to run in Docker. This would ease the roll-out and management of adaptors. Also new Cisco switches now allow Docker instances on the switch, limiting the need for extra hardware.
Erik Prins 11 months ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / General 2 Already exists

Priority option for properties

It can take a few minutes for new values to appear on a property. For example, a property mapped to an incoming sensor from CDS can take 3-5 minutes to see a new value that is added on CDS. AVEVA Advanced Analytics is not intended to be a real tim...
Evan Greavu 4 months ago in AVEVA™ Advanced Analytics 0 Needs review

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

Defining "Scan Class" and "Poll" Capabilities in Aveva Adapter for Azure Event Hubs

Define the "Scan Class" and "Poll" capabilities in the Aveva Adapter for Azure Event Hubs, similar to the functionality available in the Interface. Ensure the ability to manually select a "Scan Class" for PI Points and define it as "Poll".
Guest about 2 months ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / AVEVA Adapter for Azure Event Hubs 0 No status

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

Allow PI Adapter for MQTT (Generic) to process non-json payloads

Some MQTT devices do not send json payloads; for example, some devices send a single value as the payload for a specific topic. It would be beneficial for the adapter to be able to handle this rather than to convert these payloads into json befo...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / AVEVA Adapter for MQTT 3 Tell us more

MQTT Supported natively for cloud brokers

Connect needs to support the most popular IIoT protocol - MQTT. This must all be done within the config environment. I am NOT talking about an agent that sits somewhere else. A number of ideas: Connect needs to be a native subscriber to cloud base...
Deon van Aardt 3 months ago in General / AVEVA Data Hub Scenarios 0 No status

Allow Definition of Point Attributes via OMF to PI Web API

When creating containers via OMF the PI Points are created with default Point Attributes - if these need to be changed it is a manual process to subsequently change the attributes appropriately. As OMF solutions can be easily deployed it would be ...
Guest over 2 years ago in Developer Resources / Open Message Format (OMF) 2 No status