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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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CONNECT Integration with Grafana

Provide an integration with Grafana so that OCS data can be easily included alongside data from other sources in a simple-to-configure, but powerful visualization tool
Guest about 4 years ago in Data Platform Integration / New Integrations 1 No status

Make the Agent recrawl the AF/PI Point database from scratch

Make the agent recrawl the AF/PIPoint database from scratch every now and again and update its cache if required. I think this is what PI Vision does, so it doesn't have these limitations.
Guest about 1 year ago in PI to CONNECT / General 0 No status

Industrial Graphics - Allow display of full integer values

In industrial graphics such as the single bar and donut half, if the data stream value is greater than one thousand it displays as a decimal value with a K at the end (e.g. 8.2K for 8,200). I would like the option to display the full integer value...
Crosby Clouse 5 months ago in General 0 Needs review

Configure refresh interval start time

End-users of created virtual tables expect updates at specific times.Request would enable user to indicate when refresh should occur. For example, for daily refresh, indicating a time of 5am, so that end-users can query the updated table when they...
Glenn Moffett over 1 year ago in Data Platform Integration / Virtual Tables & Shares 0 No status

Allow partitioning configuration for virtual tables

Databricks allows for specification of partitioning configuration on a deltatable. In some cases, this can improve query performance when querying the deltashare. It would be nice if on the virtual table, partitioning options were available which ...
Adam Fink 11 months ago in Data Platform Integration / Virtual Tables & Shares 0 No status

CONNECT Integration with Snowflake

Integration between CONNECT and Snowflake (a common cloud SaaS data lake solution).
Guest about 4 years ago in Data Platform Integration / New Integrations 0 No status

Launch history recovery data transfers in steps

When we want to backfill all data from a PI Server into CONNECT Data Services, this could be long and painful. A single data transfer to perform such for a few years may take weeks. It would be good to have the ability to specify an "endtime" alon...
Christian Leroux over 1 year ago in PI to CONNECT / 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 over 1 year ago in Data Platform Integration / Power BI Connector 0 No status

Enable Dynamic Transfer Selection Criteria that PI to CONNECT periodically re-evaluates

Have an option such that the transfer selection criteria are dynamically evaluated. Example: User selects AF root node Chooses "all elements" below that node Rather than explicit selection of add elements, evaluate dynamically so that as elements ...
Brian Deslatte over 2 years ago in PI to CONNECT / General 1 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 over 2 years ago in PI to CONNECT / General 0 No status