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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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Update PI-AF install procedure to handle custom PIFD Naming

If hosting multiple AF DBs on a single SQL instance it is necessary to rename the PIFD default name to a unique name. For instance PIFD_<AFHostname> The current PI-AF install routine does not handle this situation - forcing a step to rename ...
thomasco 4 days ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Installation 0 No status

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 over 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 over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Installation 2 Declined

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 over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Installation 5 Declined

Provide OSIsoft products in Docker containers to allow rapid deployment

The PI Square blogs on containers are enticing. I am looking forward to rapid deployment of OSIsoft products in containers.
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Installation 1 Declined

Add relevant windows service dependency via installer.

Following KB01345 & 000036461 we have to manually add dependency where applicable. Please consider adding similar service dependency than we have via PI ICU for new interface (depend on pibufss): - AFService depend on relevant MSSQL$ service ...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Installation 1 No status

Use the HTTPS versions of links in "Help link", "Support link", and "Update information" in Control Panel → Programs and Features

In Control Panel → Programs and Features, when you click on the PI programs in general (i.e. not just those that are part of PI Server), you will see that most of them use an HTTP link for their "Help link", "Support link", and "Update information...
Kenneth Barber over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Installation 3 Planned

Re-instate the default tags and random/ramp soak interfaces

These were removed from the 2018 SP3 install kit as OSI found many customers removed these tags and interfaces after installation. However, our experience is the opposite and these tags are massively useful for diagnostic, experimental and trainin...
Alistair over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Installation 2 No status

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 over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Installation 0 No status

Allow individual MSIs to be extracted from the PI Server 2018 install kit

(from case 939560) I kindly request you add an enhancement request to allow individual MSIs to be extracted from the install kit. On numerous occasions, I’ve had upgrade/install failures that could be easily overcome by re-running the affected MS...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Installation 4 Declined