CONNECT feedback portal

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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.

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    PI Web API OMF renaming of PIPoints without having to delete on API -> rename on PI-> readd on API

    When we have an existing PIPoint with a given name, we can't rename it through OMF (which is a pity), requiring the operator of the system to delete the ExDesc from the point, renaming the Point in the PI Server and them readding them through the ...
    Guest 7 months ago in Developer Resources / Open Message Format (OMF) 0 No status

    Streaming API - for real time visualization

    As a OCS real-time-visualization-client I require a Streaming API so that I can avoid continuously polling the REST API. Similar to the WSS Chanels in PI WebAPI Or something like PI WebAPI Stream Updates could also work
    Guest about 4 years ago in Developer Resources / CONNECT data services API 1 No status

    Expose REST API for PI to OCS configuration

    Provide a documented REST API for PI to OCS connection and data transfer configuration. This would enable scripting against these configurations, allowing users to update their data transfers automatically, and manage them in a customer-specific way.
    Guest about 4 years ago in Developer Resources / CONNECT data services API 0 No status

    A Bulk Call for Last Values

    A customer asks for a way to retrieve the last values of a group of streams in a single call.
    Victor Zhang about 3 years ago in Developer Resources / CONNECT data services API 0 No status

    MQTT Supported natively for cloud brokers

    Connect needs to support the most popular IIoT protocol - MQTT. This must all be done within the config environment. I am NOT talking about an agent that sits somewhere else. A number of ideas: Connect needs to be a native subscriber to cloud base...
    Deon van Aardt almost 2 years ago in General / CONNECT Data Management Scenarios 0 No status

    Support GAIA-X integration

    Gaia-X is an initiative that develops, based on European values, a digital governance that can be applied to any existing cloud/ edge technology stack to obtain transparency, controllability, portability and interoperability across data and servic...
    Hans-Otto Weinhold over 2 years ago in General / CONNECT Data Management Scenarios 0 No status

    PI Vision Extensibility - Sound on state change

    A functionality that currently exists in Processbook is to play a sound file using the VBA script (driven for example, buy a PI Point changing state). I would like to replicate this functionality in PI Vision
    Guest about 4 years ago in Developer Resources / Sample Requests 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 4 years ago in Developer Resources / Open Message Format (OMF) 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 3 years ago in Developer Resources / Open Message Format (OMF) 0 No status

    Equipment Benchmarking

    The ability to configure a peer group of similar equipment based on properties of the equipment SO THAT equipment KPIs can be benchmarked across multiple customers (and data shared anonymously). For example, a peer group might be all GE7FA gas t...
    Guest about 4 years ago in General / CONNECT Data Management Scenarios 0 No status