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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.


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Share Displays with External Partners

Ability to share a display of information (real-time & historical) with an external partner/company. Must support ability to secure and share specific displays with specific partners. It must be possible to share the display with an externa...
Guest about 3 years ago in Community Data Sharing / Display Sharing 1 No status

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 about 3 years ago in Developer Resources / PI System Deployment Tests 2 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 about 3 years ago in Developer Resources / Open Message Format (OMF) 2 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 5 months ago in Data Platform Integration / Power BI Connector 0 No status

Expose count parameter to dataviews requests

By default, dataviews will return pages of 25k rows at a time, but allow you to manually specify up to 250k rows per page. For large data ingests, this default value can result in longer data loads because many "smaller" pages are being loaded. Gi...
Adam Fink 5 months ago in Data Platform Integration / Power BI Connector 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 about 3 years ago in Developer Resources / Open Message Format (OMF) 0 No status

Access Adapter configuration via cloud (read files from edge)

Browse device(s) view/update configuration for a device verify configuration naming updates - typo, change to naming customize for site specific scenario Push updated configuration
Glenn Moffett about 1 year ago in Software Management / Edge Management Integration 0 No status

Improve throughput

I am not sure if this is a limitation connected to the OMF, WebAPI, or https itself, but in the manual it is given that the maximum message size is 192KB. I am aware that compression is recommended and applied by default by the adapters. For the r...
Guest about 2 years ago in Developer Resources / Open Message Format (OMF) 0 No status

OMF: Property Bags

Allow reuse of a set of properties for multiple type definitions in the OSIsoft Message Format (OMF) spec.
Guest about 3 years ago in Developer Resources / Open Message Format (OMF) 0 No status

GitHub samples need updates for OMF 1.2 spec with PI Web API

OMF 1.2 specification have been out now.However, the current samples for OMF w/ PI Web API (BasicAPI, ComplexDynamic and Bart Ingress ) only feature OMF 1.1 versions.PI Developers will need OMF 1.2 samples in GitHub so that they have a reference t...
Guest about 2 years ago in Developer Resources / Open Message Format (OMF) 1 No status