PI Integrators
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Support OAuth2 authentication
OAuth2 is the recommended security practice to authenticate users and applications by esri. This would also allow the PI Integrators to use Windows Active Directory Federated Services as organizations move to Office365.
7 votes -
As Time Passes setting on Integrator Time-enabled Layer
As a customer, I would like to use the "As time passes, progressively display all the data to show all the data over time" in the time setting of Time-enabled Layer. This will allow me to create a heat map based on moving assets' paths cumulatively over a long time similar to the hurricane path examples in https://doc.arcgis.com/en/arcgis-online/create-maps/configure-time.htm
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Allow change of target configuration after publish
Once a View has been published, you cannot change the Target--the dropdown is greyed out on the 'Publish' screen in the designer. You have to re-create the View to publish to a new target, which is a lot more work and opens up the potential for issues or misconfigurations. Use case: if I was publishing to a sandbox environment and now want to publish the View to production, I could change the existing View's target in the drop-down instead of re-creating it.
Note: This is different from another, completed idea (https://feedback.osisoft.com/forums/555136-pi-integrators/suggestions/35776837-allow-target-configuration-changes-to-be-pushed-ou) as I don't want the configuration of…
7 votes -
Provide more detailed error logging
Error message logs sometimes are not detailed enough to properly troubleshoot. The customer would like to increase logging available in order to get more insight as to what is going on.
One example - the PI Integrator for BA does not publish any message when there is a permissions/access issue to output data to a Kafka Topic.
7 votes -
Display more than 100 records (or show the total number of matching records)
Allow the user to display more than 100 records in Modify View screen or at least show the total number of rows as additional information.
7 votes -
Have the option with streaming views to only send updated values to the target
In PI Integrator for Business Analytics 2020 Patch 1 (2.3.0.426) streaming views has the option to send messages when any selected key values are updated, but this publishes the complete message to the target, including attributes which have not updated.
It should be possible with the "any" message trigger to only send the updated values to the publish target. This option to only send updated data could be listed as one of the Value Options when configuring the message content.
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Allow connecting to Read-only Domain Controller
As a IT administrator, I would like to be able to configure the PI Integrator for Business Analytics to allow connection to my read-only domain controllers (RODC) so that the PI Integrator for Business Analytics is in line with the Windows Active Directory best practices that we employ for other applications in our organization. Currently, the PI Integrator for Business Analytics will use DNS queries based on its own server's domain to determine to which DCs it should connect, and this returns writeable DCs.
6 votes -
Allow csv file rerun in PI Integrator for Business Analytics
Allow PI Integrator for Business Analytics to rerun a view that outputs to a csv file. Currently the "Update Data" button is grayed out.
6 votes -
Expose additional Kafka target configuration options
To accommodate high frequency messages to Apache Kafka brokers, additional tuning of Kafka producers can be necessary to prevent high CPU and Disk I/O load. The PI Integrator should expose these parameters to allow users the ability to adjust their system as necessary. The following are common parameters that would allow for this:
- Batch Size (batch.size) - Linger time (linger.msg) - Buffer memory (buffer.memory) - LZ4 compressionAdditionally, many projects may require that acknowledgements be sent back to the producer to confirm that they were properly received. The PI Integrator should provide the option as for whether or not…
6 votes -
Add BA Target for Snowflake
Snowflake is a common SaaS data lake solution. BA should be able to write to it.
6 votes -
Support attribute renames
When an attribute(s) name changes, I would like the Integrator to propagate that change to existing views that contain the attribute. The Integrator does support element renames but not attribute name changes. Currently, we have to republish the affected views in order to continue publishing data for the renamed attributes.
6 votes -
New target Azure Cosmos DB
Implement new target Azure Cosmos DB - this is today not available and not on roadmap
6 votes -
Send a notification if a view fails to publish successfully
As a user, I would like a notification or email when a view did not succeed so that I can take action to backfill or triage the situation. Currently I can only use the Last Run Time and it takes a long time to verify when each view's expected run time matches with the actual Last Run Time. The Integrator does show an error icon when a view fails, but if the next run of the view succeeds, the icon disappears and the user has no way of knowing unless the user checks the 3rd party destination.
6 votes -
Show a note for the user in Preview Data that only the first 100 rows are shown
At first I thought the Integrator only retrieved 100 rows of data. It would be nice to know that the actual publication is not reflective of the preview and that the page is limited to the first 100 rows of results.
6 votes -
UoM conversions should be optional
Currently the integrator takes the Unit-of-Measure Class of the first element found that matches the asset shape, and uses that for all elements. This causes UoM conversion problems if other elements have units from a different class.
I want the UoM conversion to be optional, as only at design time one can determine if the current set of elements, AND the future set of elements returned by the asset shape would support any UoM conversion or not.
There are no technical means to ascertain the UoM class for future elements returned by the asset shape would match the current class.6 votes -
Add ability to select a subset of assets for backfill/Update in a view.
The current 'Update' feature backfills all assets matching the asset shape defined in the view.
However, when there is a need to back-fill only a small set of assets in a view there is no option to select such assets.
Adding a select option would prevent updating all assets in the view and user could select only those assets which require a back-fill6 votesThank you for your feedback! We would need more discussion with supporters to understand the problem.
How does the lack of this functionality impact your work? How often does this happen? How many assets are typically in your view? And how many assets are typically affected?
Does the new automatic updates through persistent signups (introduced in 2018) mitigate this problem at all?
Please feel free to email me or post a comment to help us understand the pain point.
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Add a toggleable switch for text file targets to allow the ID Column
With previous versions when you would create a text file view, the first column would be an index/ID column numbering each row. With upgrade to PI Integrator for Business Analytics 2020 the column is no longer there as a part of the enhancements released in this version.
One of the users of a view has a system already configured to account for the ID column and has requested that I put the ID column back in one of my views.
For this use case, it would be useful to have the ID column be toggleable when I configure the text…
5 votes -
Display data for entire time range progressively in map client data table
As a PI Integrator user, I would like the data table in an Esri map for a PI Integrator for Esri ArcGIS time-enabled layer to progressively display data for the entire time range on the map. This is related to the enhancement request: As Time Passes setting on Integrator Time-enabled Layer
5 votes -
Allow/Support URL Redirection within PI Integrator internal Webserver
Currently, PI integrator is setup on a SSL endpoint (443) and responds to https://FQDN, and https:/hostname, it ignores any requests to http:/FQDN (on port 80)
This request is to allow some URL redirect or URL rewrite mechanism to allow URL forwarding for http://host or even https:/host -> https:/FQDN
For certs issued with only a DNS of SAN=FQDN (no SAN=Host), having such forwarding would prevent a SSL cert warning about the URL and cert name mismatch.
Finally, and more generally, given the possibility of future URL updates (like /PICoresight to /PIVision), or even host name moves, the ability to do…
5 votes -
Chromium-based version of Microsoft Edge
Currently OSI has not tested web-based PI tools with Chromium-based version of Microsoft Edge.
It will be helpful to know if there are plans for it to become officially supported by a certain time, since eventually Chromium-based Edge will get pushed to all of end users5 votes
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