This connector is specially used to monitor the connection of the machines, but if there is a general network crash, and the connector losses the connection to the Datasource, it will stop sending data instead of sending something to alert of the situation.
Not being aware of that situation can cause big impact in the companies.
Receiving a Sytem digital state when the connection to the data source is lost would help to create an alarm and let the people in charge know.

Adding the Relay and the DCM framework to the "legacy"IEC 104 Connector in order to improve the architecture management and security

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.

Support collecting units and description from the Siemens Simatic PCS 7 system and writing them to the AF attribute and the PI Point attributes.

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.

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

Considering the following scenario encountered by the customer:

In IEC-104 data source, there might be 500 signals of single point (type=1, MSPNA1) and 1000 measurements of normalized value (type=9, MMENA1); however the customer would not like to transfer all those signals and measurements into PI system with PI Connector for IEC 60870-5-104.

How to configure the connector to filter them (such as filter them by IOA of signals and measurements)? Just like what can be done with filter file in PI OPC UA Connector?

The MQTT Connector should have ways to set tag attributes. There should be way to set the default compression and exception settings and also other tag attributes like point and data security.

We would like to discrimnate when the meta data around the data item changes on the source. The digital states related to it, the description, etc. If these change, the connector will change them on our PI server.

Currently PI Data Archive.does not discriminate it just blows away the current configuration and reloads everything from the source overwritting our custom changes.

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.

I work with an global oil and gas company who is interested in collecting data using the PI Connector for HART-IP but their IT requires them to utilize SECURE data transfer.

The current connector only utilizes STANDARD data transfer.

The lack of this feature is prohibitive to collecting data from a large set of assets and potentially using an optimized PI System architecture.

Need the ability for PI Connector for MQTT Sparkplug to support MQTT brokers/servers that are < v3.1.1, specifically v3.1

We need to have an option to set the Client ID parameter.
We need an option to set the starting set of the characters of the parameter to have the possibility to use the fixed text "cva::" before a random number.
Thanks

I would like to be able to configure two identical instances of the e-terrahabitat connector on different computers, only one of which collects data from habitat at any given time. In the event that the primary instance or the machine that hosts it fail, the backup instance must begin collecting and sending data with minimal loss.

The PI APS Connector for GE XA21 can not handle digital sets from GE XA21. This makes the Automatic Point Sync only semi automatic, You need to load the digital sets maually while Points are updated automatically. If the APS can transfer digital sets the tool becomes automatic. In my case a non automatic APS is not useful so we need to implement a manual process.

PI Smart Connector for Emerson DeltaV 3.x creates the following two health tags on the PI Data Archive:
DeltaVACtrAssetSyncHealthTag
DeltaVACtrPointSyncHealthTag

The names of these tags are hardcoded, so if I install another instance of the Smart Connector and configure it to create tags on the same PI Data Archive, it will write to these same health tags when reporting the status of a sync. I would like to configure the names of these health tags so my two Smart Connector instances write to two different sets of health tags.

Roche Diagnostics has built a suit of quality control devices (CEDEX Analyzers) for process control in bio-processing. It would be very important for the business to create in collaboration with Roche Diagnostics a native PI Connector.

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.