CONNECT 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. For links to our other feedback portals, please see RESOURCES below.

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    Support Kerberos for adapters on Linux

    Adapters are supported on Ubuntu, which also provides support for Kerberos (https://documentation.ubuntu.com/server/explanation/intro-to/kerberos/) Adding Kerberos support would increase the options for deploying adapters securely.
    Mike Horrocks over 1 year ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / General 0 No status

    Adapter for OPC UA to support Global Discovery Server

    Currently, to manage the OPC UA Server/Adapter certificate, we have to manually move the certificate or get the certificate trusted beforehand. This is expected for self signed Application certificate for both the Server and the Client (Adapter). ...
    Ee Sheing Lee over 1 year ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / AVEVA Adapter for OPC UA 2 Tell us more

    Configurable Hostname/IP Identifier for OMF Health Egress

    The health tags and AF structure is created with the following naming pattern by default: <machine hostname>.<adapter type> To support modern containerized deployment models, please consider adding a configurable field that allows cust...
    Guest 8 months ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / AVEVA Adapter for MQTT 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 2 years ago in PI to CONNECT / General 1 No status

    Support System States for the Adapter for Azure Event Hubs

    The data passed through the Adapter for Azure Event Hubs can be very dynamic in its configuration. It would be useful to be able to send system states to indicate bad data, and possibly the nature of that bad data. In the same way that interfaces ...
    Mike Horrocks over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / AVEVA Adapter for Azure Event Hubs 2 No status

    Kerberos Authentication from EDS to PI

    Submitting on behalf of a customer concerned about meeting stringent security requirements. Kerberos is a staple in their security architecture and the would very much like to incorporate it here.
    Guest about 4 years ago in AVEVA™ Edge Data Store / Egress 0 Future consideration

    Include information from Json body in the stream name created by the MQTT Adapter

    As a system admin I would like to send mqtt messages from multiple devices to a single topic on an mqtt broker. Each message would contain data for the device along with a field to say which device the data has come from. Then I would like to use ...
    Guest about 4 years ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / AVEVA Adapter for MQTT 0 No status

    Stream-level debugging

    As a PI System Administrator, I'd like to be able to trace values being received, and subsequently being sent by the Adapter, similar to PI Interfaces. Having the ability to trace/log timestamps and values for specific streams would greatly help ...
    Guest about 4 years ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / General 0 Future consideration

    Provide additional features to support debugging

    When first setting up the agent, there can be scenarios where there a number of errors to work through - for example tag not found. Summarization of errors and an alternative to event viewer would aid debugging.
    Glenn Moffett almost 3 years ago in PI to CONNECT / General 0 No status

    Adapters using Text parser be able to dynamically generate the stream name or ID based on fields of the text parsed

    This could be a good feature for any adapters that uses the text parser. MQTT, SDF, Azure Event Hubs. When using JsonPath or Xpath to parse a file or payload the stream name and stream id have to be hardcoded their value cannot be based on a the v...
    Randy Giguere almost 3 years ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / General 0 No status