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 to CONNECT

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Seamless change of PI Server Alternate Display Name

When the PI Server Alternate Display Name is modified, new streams are created to receive live data while historical data remains only in the existing streams. It would be better to automate: the deletion of existing streams the backfilling of new...
Clement Dekeyser over 2 years ago in PI to CONNECT / General 0 No status

More options when searching for PI Points

During a Lighthouse project a customer noted that they have a number of points in their data archive that are no longer on scan. It would be helpful, then, if the PI Point Search facilities in PI to CONNECT allowed use of the ‘scan on/off’ flag so...
Guest almost 3 years ago in PI to CONNECT / General 0 No status

IOT Device to Cloud

Send soft sensor and IOT device data straight to the cloud bypassing traditional automation and plant floor networks. Provide built in dashboarding for the data in the cloud.
Guest about 3 years ago in PI to CONNECT 0 No status

PI to CONNECT for digital tags: Make it easier to distinguish real digital state values vs system digital states

PI to CONNECT creates a CONNECT stream type for PI digital tags with a property called DigitalStateName. This property includes both the "real" value of the tag's digital state set, but also the System Digital State (No Data, Error, Comm Fail, etc...
Elizabeth McErlean about 3 years ago in PI to CONNECT 0 No status

PI to CONNECT ability to include annotations

In addition to including the "Is Annotated" flag, I would like the ability to include the actual annotations with a PI to CONNECT data transfer
Guest about 3 years ago in PI to CONNECT 0 No status

Allow setting default security for all streams resulting from a given transfer

CONNECT may have multiple PI to CONNECT transfers coming from different Data Archives. The DAs data may have different security requirements. To facilitate managing this in CONNECT, there should be a way to set default security for streams (and as...
Brian Deslatte about 2 years ago in PI to CONNECT / General 0 No status

Install and configure a Connector at a site with few IT resources

As an admin, I need to install and configure a Connector or application that collects, buffers, and transmits data to CONNECT data services so that I can start making displays that help me monitor my process.
Gregg Le Blanc about 3 years ago in PI to CONNECT 0 No status

Handling Replaced or Redeployed Devices

The ability for data generating devices in the field to be redeployed to new assets and have the data in OCS reflect this reality. Scenarios: * Device 123 is capturing data from Asset A and redeployed to Asset B at this timestamp. * Device 456...
Guest about 3 years ago in PI to CONNECT 0 No status

Support PI to CONNECT Connections from 3rd party partners, without requiring Admin access

I have a customer that I would like to collect data from. I would like to allow them to run PI to CONNECT to send their on-prem data to my CONNECT tenant. They are not part of our user database, and I do not want to grant that customer "Admin" lev...
Guest about 3 years ago in PI to CONNECT 0 No status

Minimize PI to CONNECT Post Installation Configuration Utility

As a PI to CONNECT Administrator, I would like to be able to minimize the PI toCONNECT Configuration Utility so I can more easily switch between running applications to gather necessary information to correctly configure my PI to CONNECT connection.
Guest about 3 years ago in PI to CONNECT 0 No status