AVEVA™ PI System™ Feedback Portal

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We created this site to hear your enhancement ideas, suggestions and feedback about AVEVA products and services. All of the feedback you share here is monitored and reviewed by the AVEVA product managers.

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Open Message Format (OMF)

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Clearly state that a Data message cannot include both a container ID and a type ID

Right now, the documentation: https://omf-docs.readthedocs.io/en/v1.0/Data_Messages.html Mentions that "For each object, either typeid or containerid must be specified". However, it does not clearly state that you CANNOT include both in a da...
Guest over 1 year ago in Developer Resources / Open Message Format (OMF) 0 No Status

Support an analogue to the "step" PI Point attribute when creating PI Points

Even though it will indeed be useful to be able to specify whether data should be retrieved in a step-wise fashion, for new PI Points (assuming you're writing data to a PI Connector), it's important to be able to specify that those tags should hav...
Guest over 1 year ago in Developer Resources / Open Message Format (OMF) 1 In development

Send only data that has changed.

When transferring data via satellite it is necessary to keep bandwidth usage to a bare minimum. Currently OMF must send all values regardless of whether they have changed or not. If it could send only the data parameters that have changed that wou...
Guest over 1 year ago in Developer Resources / Open Message Format (OMF) 6 Declined

Provide authoritative advice/document on how to configure/connect ESBs to stream to OMF

In transportation, a common pattern is to use an ESB to gather all field data and make it the central point for interoperability. Examples include: JMS bus, Tibco ESB, HP OMi + IIB of Kafka, others. I believe it should be possible to configure tho...
Guest over 1 year ago in Developer Resources / Open Message Format (OMF) 0 Declined

OMF: the possibility to set/create security settings (groups …) by using OMF

After creating Elements and Tags in AF by using OMF standard, I don´t want to manually configure security settings in AF. The possibility to set/create security settings (groups …) by only using OMF standard would be very helpfull.
Guest over 1 year ago in Developer Resources / Open Message Format (OMF) 0 Declined

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 over 1 year ago in Developer Resources / Open Message Format (OMF) 2 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 over 1 year ago in Developer Resources / Open Message Format (OMF) 0 No Status

OMF: Response code 200

Response code 200 for OMF or possibility for validating of OMF data. EDS send only ‘accepted’ not ‘finished without error’, even if OMF is malformed and dropped in processing. Customer needs 100% tracking, so we must read all data after sending ...
Guest over 1 year ago in Developer Resources / Open Message Format (OMF) 0 No Status