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AVEVA™ PI System™ Feedback Portal

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We created this site to hear your enhancement ideas, suggestions and feedback about AVEVA products and services. All of the feedback you share here is monitored and reviewed by the AVEVA product managers.

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Installation

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Installer screen should read 'PI Data Archive Install Directory' instead of 'PI Data Archive Directory'

For an upgrade - misleading - could be interpreted as the folder where PI archives currently reside.
BruceMcCamant about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Installation 0 No status

Resizing the Installation Complete and Installation Error Window

For users who are performing installations through the use of PI System installation kits they would like the ability to resize the Installation Complete (Installation Error) Window so that they can get all of the details on all of the modules of ...
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Installation 0 Declined

Link to user manual/ help file unavailable from UI

The connector UI does not contain any link to the help documentation or the user manual. The files are also not found in the standard PIPC path and are available only with the installation extarction
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Installation 0 No status

Running PI System within Docker

Run the PI Server within Docker (https://www.docker.com/) to get better economies of scale.  Might already be possible, but need advice supporting this architecture.
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Installation 5 Declined

Remove installation kits' dependency on write permission to root C:\.

Some organizations do not provide admin accounts with write permission to the root C:\ directory. The install kits of most PI products copy the setup.ini to C:\pisetup.ini, and then write the logs to C:\ before moving them to %pipc%\dat, both of w...
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Installation 4 No status

Utility to completely uninstall all OSIsoft PI products from a machine

It would be helping to have a utility do a complete uninstall of all the PI products from a machine including registry keys and hidden files.
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Installation 2 Declined

When PI AF Client is updated, update all install kits that contain PI AF Client

A lot of times, install kits such as the one for PI DataLink contain an older version of PI AF Client than the one that is included in the PI AF Client install kit. To make things easier for customers, whenever PI AF Client is updated, consider u...
Kenneth Barber about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Installation 1 Declined

Provide documentation and examples of how to interact with the PI Data Collection Manager API.

- Enable Programmatic configuration for OMF applications to automate onboarding process - Swagger specification
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Installation 0 No status

All-in-1 PI Client install kit

Similar to the PI Server install kit, there should be a PI Client install kit that packages all non-deprecated client-side PI programs together. See the comments for a list of programs.
Kenneth Barber about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Installation 2 Declined

Selectively install 32-bit versus 64-bit versions of PI programs

Currently, install kits such as those of PI DataLink, PI AF Client, PI API, PI SDK, PI OLEDB Provider, PI OLEDB Enterprise, and PI SQL Client always install both the 32-bit and 64-bit versions. Most of the time, one of these versions is unused and...
Kenneth Barber about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Installation 3 No status