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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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PI Interface for OPC UA

While it is understood that adapters are the future of data source connectivity; there is an immediate need for existing PI system users (especially in the Chemical industry) to transition their data sources from using OPC DA to OPC UA. Many of th...
Brian Rock over 1 year ago in PI Interfaces / General 0 No status

Add an option to receive real-time data in client during buffer recovery

Add an option to receive real-time data in the client during recovery of buffered data: The default behaviour of our interfaces / buffering is that after a connection failure the buffer will be flushed and data will be sent in it’s original order...
Guest over 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / General 5 No status

Customize UniInt Failover Sync File Permissions

Prior to UniInt v4.6.0.60, UFO sync files created during interface startup would inherit file permissions from their parent folder (assuming child inheritance had been enabled on the folder). With UniInt v4.6.0.60, this behavior changed and now s...
Guest over 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / General 1 No status

DeltaV Smart Connector Enhancement

I think it would be a good idea to allow exception settings to be created. The DeltaV history collection settings only allow for compression. Since many/most users use 1/2 compression for their exception value then perhaps we could have a check bo...
Guest over 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / General 0 No status

Separate commonly used PI Interfaces that do not have a successor into read-only and write-only versions

Currently, it is recommended to use the read-only version of a PI Interface if only reading is required, and to have separate read and write instances of the read-write version of a PI Interface if writing is required. (Reference: https://docs.osi...
Kenneth Barber over 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / General 1 No status

Uni-Int to write to scan-class health tags on startup

We've noticed this particularly with the RDBMS-PI interface when configured for failover: Health tags that are only written to when the interface becomes primary or has completed its first scan (eg Point Count, Scan Class I/O Rate etc.) say 'Intf ...
Guest over 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / General 0 No status

Allow https communication between all PI products

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Guest over 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / General 1 No status

Upgrade the most commonly used PI Interfaces to use only the Microsoft Visual C++ 2015-2022 Redistributable

Please upgrade the most commonly used PI Interfaces so that the only Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable version that they require is the 2015-2022 version. This will reduce the size of the install kit, make it faster to download, make it faster ...
Kenneth Barber over 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / General 1 No status

Add a watchdog counter to API shared memory

Add a watchdog counter or something similar into the shared memory header. If the counter fails to update, initiate UFO. If PIBufSS crashes, data loss can occur.  implement something that allows UniInt to know that the Buffer Subsystem is n...
Clint Ramsey over 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / General 1 No status

SNMP Interface to support using multiple types of encryption such as DES, 3DES, and AES-128 bit, AES-192 bit, and AES-256 bit.

SNMP Interface should support using multiple types of encryption such as DES, 3DES, and AES-128 bit, AES-192 bit, and AES-256 bit.
Guest over 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / General 0 No status