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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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 almost 3 years ago in Developer Resources / PI System Deployment Tests 2 No status

Support "Data Handling" options for adapters

The PI Interface for OPC DA can write IO timeout when it cannot get values from the OPC server. It would be useful to have the same option for the adapters so that stale data is marked IO timeout or similar, and automatically invalidates calculati...
Mike Horrocks 5 months ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / General 1 No status

PI to Connect 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 almost 3 years ago in PI to CONNECT / General 2 In development

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 almost 3 years ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / AVEVA Adapter for MQTT 3 In development

Add ability to customize and reset CONNECT data services home page

There is currently no way to remove any of the tiles on the CONNECT data services home page - for example, I would like to remove the 'Latest Service Updates'. I would also like a 'reset to default' option that moves all tiles back to original loc...
Guest about 1 month 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 almost 3 years ago in Developer Resources / Open Message Format (OMF) 6 Declined

__ParentID metadata should be parent Asset ID, not parent element GUID in AF.

As a connect data services user, it is more helpful to me to know the parent asset id of my asset rather than its parent element GUID. This would allow me to more easily navigate the Asset hierarchy programatically.
Jessica Rammo 2 months ago in PI to CONNECT / General 0 No status

Design some UI for PI Adaptors

Design some UI for PI Adaptors, so it will be user friendly to configure the data source or data reading configurations etc. It is really hard to configure or troubleshoot an issue in PI Adaptor without Proper UI.
Guest 8 months ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / AVEVA Adapter for MQTT 1 No status

Add ability to uncheck or remove attributes from existing transfer

Transfers are initially added by searching and then selecting elements then attributes to add. When we want to edit the transfer, we are only able to remove entire elements, not by attributes. This became an issue when we later found that we had a...
Hege Dammen 6 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 almost 3 years ago in Developer Resources / Open Message Format (OMF) 2 No status