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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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Allow client-level failover on a per data source component level

Currently the client-level failover for Adapters occur on a per Adapter level. Which means that for instances where multiple data sources are configured, in some circumstances failover may result in an instance with a bad connection to a particula...
Guest 2 months ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / General 0 No status

Ability to set a "Rolling forward" date and time interval for the Power BI Connector

When the Power BI Connector gets data every XX minutes (30 minutes for ExxonMobil) for a period of time (2 years) from CONNECT DataViews, it adds millions of data points every XX (30) minutes. As such, it needs to move the START time of the query ...
Hege Dammen 30 days ago in Data Platform Integration / Power BI Connector 0 No status

Compression on CONNECT to PI related tags

The tags use the default compression settings since they are automagically created through PI WebAPI if CONNECT to PI agent starts sending the transfer. This can mean that there is another compression applied to the tags. But as we are already cop...
Hans-Otto Weinhold 4 months ago in CONNECT to PI 0 No status

Improve error messages when OMF ingress fails due to permissions errors

Applications ingesting data into Connect Data Services via OMF inherit their permissions from the user who created the OMF Connection their client is mapped to. If that user is removed from Connect, then these applications will be unable to write ...
Michael Tippett 7 months ago in General / Account Management 0 No status

Enable Multiple PI to CONNECT agents for one PI Data Archive

Aside from our main AF Server setup used for numerous use cases like energy, OEE, etc, we have created a second environment of AF Server / AF Analysis / SQL Server to isolate the monitoring of a critical process. We are still making use of a singl...
Christian Leroux about 2 years ago in PI to CONNECT / General 0 No status

PI to CONNECT - AF Lookup Table Support

Support AF lookup table information on PI to CONNECT.
Guest almost 3 years ago in PI to CONNECT 0 No status

Alert if ingress detected to be in a bad state

During 2 recent lighthouse projects, most recently with Kimball Electronics, the machine hosting the PI to CONNECT agent experienced a reboot due to patch installations. PI to CONNECT didn't properly restart (we'll investigate that separately) and...
Guest about 1 year ago in PI to CONNECT / General 0 No status

displayname/localname for identifier that excludes namespace and data type

Example: OPC UA Server 'Name': 2.0:W-HVAC-AC-1-IO!Wtot Namespace: 2 Datatype: 0 Identifier: W-HVAC-AC-1-IO!Wtot OPC UA Server 'DisplayName': W-HVAC-AC-1-IO!Wtot OPC UA Adapter {Identifier} returns: 2.0:W-HVAC-AC-1-IO!Wtot Required stream name: W-H...
Glenn Moffett 11 months ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / AVEVA Adapter for OPC UA 0 No status

OMF should accept the use of special characters like / : @ ! + % < > ( ) when writing to PI WebAPI OMF endpoint

The OMF 1.1 spec does not allow certain special characters that are indeed accepted in the PI Core system like these here: / : @ ! + % < > ( ) When OMF is used to write to PI Core via the PI WebAPI OMF endpoint, this hinders the migration p...
Guest almost 3 years ago in Developer Resources / Open Message Format (OMF) 0 No status

Provide a way to find other tenant aliases

A list of tenant aliases that is publicly available would allow publishers of data to more easily add subscribers.
Guest almost 3 years ago in General 0 No status