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.

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AVEVA™ Adapters

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Allow AVEVA Adapter for Modbus TCP to collect data on INT64 and UINT64 registers

Certain equipment is providing energy data under INT64 or UNIT64 register types. However, the Adapter currently only supports FLOAT64, which is not compatible. We want to be able to configure the Adapter for Modbus TCP to collect data on INT64 and...
Guest 14 days ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / AVEVA Adapter for Modbus TCP 0 No status

Support for additional Complex Data Types for all Adapters

Request to enhance the Adapters to support more complex data types, specifically value/quality pairs. While some Adapters currently support geolocation and coordinate complex data types, they do not all support value/quality data types. In industr...
Guest 8 months ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / General 0 No status
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PI Adapter for OPC UA should be able to write outputs to the OPC UA Server

The PI Adapter should be able to create a data pipe listener on certain streams (unsolicited reads) that would trigger the writes back to the OPC UA Server. This is useful when providing set points to the equipment without the need of establishin...
Guest about 3 years ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / AVEVA Adapter for OPC UA 9 No status

Bitmask Functionality in AVEVA PI OPC UA Adapter

During the migration from the PI OPC DA Interface to the AVEVA PI OPC UA Adapter, we noticed that the ability to apply bitmasks to incoming values is no longer supported. This functionality is critical in many existing implementations, especially ...
Guest 3 months ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / AVEVA Adapter for OPC UA 0 No status

Egress via AF SDK

Please add AF SDK Egress as an additional optional egress component. This would be very helpful for customers who are using the adapters, but keeping the PI Server on-premise. The adapters are relatively light-weight services; however, the “cost” ...
Guest about 1 month ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / General 0 No status

Include buffering metrics in adapter health

In the OmfEgress component in adapter health the metrics are limited to DeviceStatus, and IO rate. Another key metric for this component is the buffering state. To keep it simple it would be useful to have the number of events in the buffer. This ...
Mike Horrocks 7 months ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / General 0 No status

OPC UA Adapter Create Tag on Discovery

For the OPC UA Adapter, we are noticing that a tag won't be created until a data point comes in after the tag is added to the data filter. That causes issues for slow updating tags. For instance an open/shut valve that is rarely operated. We have ...
Guest 2 months ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / AVEVA Adapter for OPC UA 0 No status

PI Adapter for OPC UA Array Support

As a PI System Administrator, I would like for the PI Adapter for OPC UA to support array data types from the OPC UA Server. A large amount of our data may be contained within arrays on our OPC UA Server, so we would not currently be able to colle...
Guest about 3 years ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / AVEVA Adapter for OPC UA 11 No status

Add an option to disable endpoint validation between results of GetEndpoints and CreateSession

As discussed in OPC UA Adapter - Mismatch of Endpoints returned by GetEndpoints and CreateSession , in the OPC UA SDK 4.1.0+ endpoint validation was added to compare results returned in responses to GetEndpoints and CreateSession requests. The OPC...
Guest 3 months ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / AVEVA Adapter for OPC UA 0 No status

Allow remote configuration

Adapters are currently only listening on localhost (127.0.0.1) causing them to be only accessible locally. For docker containers, they can only be accessed from within the container or directly on the host (with the --network host switch which res...
Guest about 3 years ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / General 3 No status