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Apply the Connector Relay to IEC 60870-5-104 Connector
Adding the Relay and the DCM framework to the "legacy"IEC 104 Connector in order to improve the architecture management and security
19 votesCollecting more data to understand the need and use case behind this request.
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Reduce Number of Point Sources for PI Connector for PI System Health
PI Connector for PI System Health creates a LOT of different point sources for the Pi points it creates on the Data Archive. Some customer may prefer to not have so many point sources show up for one interface/connector. Adding a method to reduce/condense point sources pre-point creation would eliminate to need to edit the point sources manually afterwards.
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Illegal character handling in PI Connectors - AF element
Update to the Wonderware and UFL connector to handle illegal char only changes the PI tag. The AF still updated with the original char change. (i.e. \ to %19i). The AF element need to match the PI tag name and need done for all connectors.
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PI Connector for Modbus TCP - include option to configure response data byte size by register type.
Certain RTUs limit the number of Boolean/Discrete values they return independently of the number of floats they return. The PI Connector for Modbus has a configuration option for “Maximum Response Data Bytes” but it applies to all register types. Enhance the maximum response data byte size configuration to provide an option to configure the max byte size by register type.
6 votes -
Setting of parameters k and w for IEC 60870-5-104
Parameters k (Maximum number of outstanding I format APDUs) and w, cannot be adjusted, while vendors recommend customers to set it to k=12 and w=8
6 votes -
Collect units of measure and description from Siemens Simatic PCS 7
Support collecting units and description from the Siemens Simatic PCS 7 system and writing them to the AF attribute and the PI Point attributes.
6 votes -
Support user-defined data types in the PI Connector for EtherNet/IP
As an advanced user, I would like to be able to specify a user-defined data type for the array sent to the PI Connector for EtherNet/IP. For example, if I have a 32-bit array composed of one INT and two SINTs, I would like to be able to configure the connector to parse this array correctly. Currently the data type specification of the array is limited to one data type (DINT, INT, FLOAT, or SINT).
5 votes -
Enable child Event Frames for Alarms and Conditions from PI Connector for Siemens Simatic PCS 7
Would like to see states of alarms captured as child Event Frames of the parent alarm Event Frame that is currently created. Today this data is only captured in tags.
3 votes -
2 votes
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IED Security for PI Connector for IEC61850
Enable the connector such that it can use the IEC61850 security parameters of username and password,
2 votesWe have implemented this functionality within the connector that is currently in Beta.
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Need EtherNet/IP connector to be able to read and write.
Need EtherNet/IP connector to be able to read and write.
Currently EtherNet/IP connector is read only.2 votes -
PI Connector for Siemens SIMATIC PCS7 Alarm and Conditions backfilling support
In case of an interruption, the PI Connector has the current capability of backfilling any tag data from the source OpenPCS 7 system.
Condition data leading to PI Event Frame creation from the connector should also support similar backfilling capability to avoid data loss.
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PI Connector for Siemens SIMATIC PCS7 relay support
Allows customers to leverage the PI Connector relay for improved security, ease of deployment and maintenance when PI Connector for Siemens SIMATIC PCS7 is implemented in a process network with DMZ communication to the corporate network.
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Support string data types for PI Connector for EtherNet/IP
String data, such as serial numbers, are supported by the EtherNet/IP protocol and are often collected to help understand what was being made by a piece of equipment at any given time.
1 vote -
IEC61850 encryption
Implement TLS encryption between the IEC61850 Connector and the target IED(s) as per TS 62351.
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PI Connector for FANUC Focus should give a warning to users when they change the machine IP address for an existing data source.
In the PI Connector for FANUC Focus, each data source has the IP address of the related machine specified. The "Device ID" is also part of the configuraiton. If a Device ID is not specified, the IP address is used as part of the Device ID and ends up becoming part of the AF hierarchy as well as the PI point names.
If a user goes to change the IP address for an existing data source, and the default Device ID is being used, they will inadvertently create a second set of PI points (Duplicates, orphaning the original PI points…
1 voteAny configuration changes made to the device id or IP address after initial configuration, will be met by a warning message which the user will have to accept before proceeding with the changes.
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Allow PI Connector for NOV WITSML to use proxy server
Some organisations enforce connection to the external network to be made through a proxy server.
1 vote
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