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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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

For Aggregate Tag PI Agreements need to see use of PI Client Pack licences in Connect Reporting

Customer wants to see the actual use of PI Client pack licenses on their estate and in connect reporting. They manage this as an offline bespoke way and feel it should be available in connect reports when they need it.
Adam Rawlins 28 days ago in General / Health & Manageability 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

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

More control on MQTT parameters on the AVEVA Adapter for MQTT

It would be nice to have more control on additional MQTT parameters for the AVEVA Adapter for MQTT. We are especially interested in having control on the QoS of the subscription. Setting this would give us more control in buffering, especially whe...
Guest about 1 month ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / AVEVA Adapter for MQTT 0 No status

Enable subscribe using wildcard for AVEVA Adapter for MQTT

It would be handy to have the PI Adapter for MQTT to be able to subscribe to a broker by using wildcards only. Right now, we need to specify each individual topics on the data selection rule, and this eventually comes as individual subscription as...
Guest about 1 month ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / AVEVA Adapter for MQTT 0 No status

Support string builder attributes

String builder attributes are incredibly useful for including helpful Asset Framework metadata and context. They are widely used throughout AF deployments, and this data is very helpful for downstream analysis and interpretation of AF data. The PI...
Daniel Lopez 3 months ago in PI to CONNECT / General 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

Allow Multiple Data Archives per PI to OCS Agent

Allowing data transfer for tags from multiple PI Data Archives with one agent will help to cut down on the number of agent services, and therefore machines, that need to be involved to send data from PI to OCS.
Guest over 2 years ago in PI to CONNECT 0 Future consideration