OPC HDA Client

The WinCC OA OPC (OLE for Process Control) HDA client allows to query, display and save historical data from OPC HDA servers.

Notes and restrictions

  • The OPC HDA client is only supported for Windows.
  • The OPC HDA client supports the OPC HDA specification version 1.20
  • The OPC HDA client supports simultaneous connections with up to 32 OPC HDA servers
  • The OPC HDA client only supports working with 64Bit OPC HDA servers
  • Following OPC HDA data types are supported
    • VT_BOOL
    • VT_I4
    • VT_UI4
    • VT_R8
    • VT_UI4
    • VT_DATE
  • The debug flag -dbg 10 provides information if the server list is changed, the connection to a server is lost or a state/browse request is performed.
  • Following of the OPC HDA specification is not supported:
    • Aggregate functions
    • asynchronous functionality
    • update functionality