Tags created by a PI Connector can be renamed, but these renamed points can be "forgotten" if the Connector's point cache is lost. Updating the Tag Mapping configuration file can avoid this cache loss, but I would like to be able to rename Connector tags without updating this configuration file.

Support for health tags (similar to UniInt health tags), Windows performance counters, or any other way to bring Connector status and health information into PI tags to put them side-by-side with Interface health monitoring.

Sometimes we need to send data back to our sources. Connectors should support output tags

Example 1 - OPC
If a new connection needs to be made to one OPC Server, restarting the connector forces all data sources (and potentially connections to multiple OPC Servers) to be restarted.

Example 2 - UFL
If my web service is down and I do not want to connector to keep trying to access to REST Server, I cannot stop/disable only one data source

RWE Power AG

“But one really important feature we need, is the ability to write back from PI into the SCADA system
Until now, we couldn’t find anything about this (important) functionality.
So our question is if we can use this connector bi-directional?
And if not, is this already in the roadmap for this connector?”

Add the ability for PI Connectors to create future data point. This is especially useful for the PI Connector for UFL. The current workaround is to manually create the point as a StoredValues=FutureData.

Allow for connectors to create templates without the fixed prefix. E.g. The option to name an AF template "templatename" and not "UFL.templatename"

Sometimes, when dealing with APS, a new TAG is generated for an existing point. Data stops going to the old point. It would be nice if there was an easy way, within the gui (not manually dumping and importing) that we could take the values from one tag, and place it into the new tag.

There are other times when we may want to copy all historical values from a tag, and place it into a new tag.

Connectors currently assign point sources; this is not user configurable.  In addition, all connector of like kind get the same point source.  This makes it difficult to determine which tags "belong" to which connector node.  Users would like to be able to monitor\count\filter searches based on connector node.

There are use cases where data is sent over networks with latency (satellite link, for example) so being able to filter out noise at the connector is important.  This is also important when a connector sends data to a local PI Server in the field (low latency), but then PItoPI is used to send snapshot updates to a central PI Server over a high latency link.

While writing data to PI through the connector relay there seems to be no option to control the write mode . E.g."[-109] Value at This Time Already Exists" is shown in the logs if the archive already contains an event with the same timestamp. The default update option can be "Replace" instead of NoReplace. Other write options can be made configurable.

It would be very useful to see the data flowing through a connector at the edge, or even the data buffered in a connector. Every connector could have a rest endpoint with the same methods as PI Web API. Possible uses:

-Diagnose connection/configuration issues
-Attach a dashboard directly to the connector on the node (for example a display on a monitor in a mining truck)
-Attach third party software for local analysis or alarming of equipment status (for example, alerting the driver of a truck of important events)

I'm sure there are many others...

Right now, for one instance of the connector, all configured data sources will send data to all configured PI Data Archives and PI AF Servers. It is all or nothing. Due to the fact that you cannot have multiple instances of the same connector on any given node at a time, if you want this kind of granular control you would need an entirely new node and another connector. In the past, it was trivial to have multiple interfaces instances on the same node to send different data to different PI Data Archives; connectors should allow this capability.

PI connectors such as OPC UA, Wonderware and Cygnet send BAD values from the data source. We would like the option to filter these values out at the connector level such that they do not make the PI Data Archive.

Currently source points for PI Connectors that contain illegal characters are handled differently depending on the PI Connector. Some will replace the character while others will map an illegal character replacement when creating the PI Point. These illegal characters should be dealt with the same across all PI Connectors. Examples of illegal data source Characters: * ' ? ; { } [ ] | \ ` "

The root element in AF is determined by the Connector code.  Allow the name of the root element to be specified by the user.

In the configuration page of any data source, there is a "Save" button and a "Cancel" link. This is unnecessarily inconsistent. Please make "Cancel" a button.