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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.

To start, take a look at the ideas in the list below and VOTE for your favorite ideas submitted by other users. POST your own idea if it hasn’t been suggested yet. Include COMMENTS and share relevant business case details that will help our product team get more information on the suggestion. Please note that your ideas and comments are visible to all other users.


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PI Connectors

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Make the PI Data Collection Manager more user friendly for setting up the connector and Relay

Customer from case 01234736 has mentioned that it can be confusing having the Connector Administration and PI Data Collection Manager have the options to modify and configure the PI Connectors 2.x. For example, when configuring the Data Source, yo...
Guest 6 days ago in PI Connectors / General 0 No status
331 VOTE

Connector-level Failover - OPC UA 2.x

Support connector-level failover in PI Connector for OPC UA 2.x (relay-enabled version). Similar to UniInt failover (interfaces), failover should be data source specific and always favor the data source in the better state.
Gabriel Verreault over 2 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for OPC UA 35 Declined
207 VOTE

Monitoring Connector health

Support for health tags (similar to UniInt health tags), Windows performance counters, or any other way to bring Connector status and health information into PI tags to put them side-by-side with Interface health monitoring.
Guest over 2 years ago in PI Connectors / General 42 Declined
124 VOTE

Develop an interactive INI editor for the UFL Connector

The editor should allow you to see in real time how it interacts with the data. Being able to test the INI file prior to loading some file would make it much more manageable to read a variety of data format and insure that it has the expected beha...
Gabriel Verreault over 2 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for UFL 7 Declined
106 VOTE

PI OPC UA Connector Array support

Add reading capability for OPC UA Arrays. Currently items with “ValueRank“ = 1 are ignored.
Guest over 2 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for OPC UA 11 No status

Retrieve data even it's not changed on OPC server

Currently Connector configured to rertieve event on change and not based on a scan class like interfaces.The Connector suscribes to the changes, and when a change comes in to the server, the data will be sent to PI connector. We need option to ret...
Guest over 2 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for OPC UA 13 Declined

Do not synchronize description from OPC UA server into PI Tag

There are situations when customer prefers to use “description” in PI Tag attribute that is independent from item “description” provided by OPC UA Server.   Currently, during each synchronization, the OPC UA Connector synchronizes descri...
Guest over 2 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for OPC UA 9 In development

Permissions to discover and create tags only

Create the ability to give users permissions to discover and create tags only in PI Data Collection Manager. We were able to give users the ability to only create tags when using OPC DA interfaces, but we can no longer do this with PI DCM. This se...
David Sugden 11 days ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for OPC UA 0 No status

Allow restarting on a data source basis instead of having to restart the connector

Example 1 - OPC If a new connection needs to be made to one OPC Server, restarting the connector forces all data sources (and potentially connections to multiple OPC Servers) to be restarted. Example 2 - UFL If my web service is down and I do not...
Gabriel Verreault over 2 years ago in PI Connectors / General 3 Declined

OPC UA: allow historical data access

allow historical data access with custom time ranges, like OPC HDA
Clint Ramsey over 2 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for OPC UA 11 Declined