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OPC Connectivity from SLC5/04 to app via WinCC OPC Server

Question - I'm interfacing an A-B SLC5/04 to a PC (via a DH+ link) running WinCC and ultimately the "canned" end-application that uses WinCC's OPC Server (and HMI shell) to transmit/receive data from the SLC5/04. Physical connectivity is not an issue - data structures/types are. The SLC5/04's data structure is not compatible with the end-application - the end-application requires either a byte array structure or double word (32bit) - the SLC's native structure is a 16bit type. We've made various attempts at .ini file modifications within the OPC Server (that's a NO NO), data concentrators, writing scripts inside of WinCC to generate a 32bit tag, etc. None of these solutions would yield a "clean" and practical application for the customer. What does Software Toolbox have, that can potentially manipulate the data into a usable 32bit structure, prior to getting it to the end application (which is built around WinCC's OPC server)?

A bridging solution should be able to help you with this problem. An OPC bridge can read the tag and write it back to an other tag in your OPC server with a different data type. You can also have it read the tag, and change the data type, and read it directly from the bridge with WinCC. See more about our bridging solutions here.