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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Use PI Server Alternate Display Name in stream naming pattern

The PI Server Alternate Display Name is only used to build the stream IDs. It would be better to use it in the stream naming pattern as well.
Clement Dekeyser over 2 years ago in PI to CONNECT / General 0 No status

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

Exception and compression settings as stream metadata

PI to CONNECT automatically creates metadata for some tag properties such as pointsource, instrumentttag or exdesc. It would be useful if PI to CONNECT could also create metadata for exception and compression settings. This would help data consume...
Clement Dekeyser over 1 year 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 over 2 years ago in PI to CONNECT / General 0 No status

AF-to-CONNECT should capture Categories

It would be helpful if the PI to CONNECT Agent could read the Category from an AF Attribute and write meta data to the Stream associated with the Category. This would be used to identify which of the AF Attributes are to be included in a DataView ...
John Marriott almost 3 years ago in PI to CONNECT 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 almost 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 almost 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 almost 3 years ago in PI to CONNECT 0 No status

PI to CONNECT Support multiple tag lists with different time ranges

As a PI to CONNECT Administrator, I would like to be able to specify a list of PI Tags/AF elements and transfer with a certain time range, and then another list of different PI Tags/AF elements with a different time range, from the same PI Server ...
Guest almost 3 years ago in PI to CONNECT 3 Tell us more

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 almost 2 years ago in PI to CONNECT / General 0 No status