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AVEVA™ PI System™ Feedback Portal

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PI Interfaces

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PI Interface for OPC DA bitmask plugin with float data type

PI Interface for OPC DA has a plugin called "Bitmask" to extract specific bits from regular OPC values that are of type Int (i.e VT_I2 / VT_I4 / VT_UI2) but other data types such as floats are not supported. It would be good to have Float data typ...
Guest 1 day ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface for OPC DA 1 No status

Have the FTB Interface support multiple stop events for Unit Procedures

There are instances where a batch must be manipulated creating two Unit Released events in the event file. The desired behavior for the PI FactoryTalk Batch Interface would be for the second end time to overwrite the first end time when data is be...
Guest 2 days ago in PI Interfaces / Batch Interfaces 0 No status

Have the FTB interface not truncate the trailing "-#" index (e.g. UnitProcedureName-1) at the end of a Unit Procedure

Some FactoryTalk batch processes have overlapping Unit Procedures with trailing indexes. Because the trailing index is truncated it results in overlapping Unit Procedures with the same name which are then merged. The desired behavior would be for ...
Guest 2 days ago in PI Interfaces / Batch Interfaces 0 No status

Have the FTB interface capture "Active Step Change Commencing" events as event frames

Some FactoryTalk batch processes require "Active Step Change Commencing" event to be part of the batch hierarchy however the PI Interface for Factory Talk Batch starts event frames only on [EVENT] = "System Message" or "State Change".
Guest 2 days ago in PI Interfaces / Batch Interfaces 0 No status

Subsecond Cropping for Improved Timestamp Handling

The OPCDA interface currently can only handle subsceonds by ignoring them as mentioned in "Ignore Subsecond Timestamps" under PI Interface for OPC DA - Data Handling settings. However there are use cases where users would like to simply limit the ...
Mohammed Shahin 30 days ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface for OPC DA 0 No status

Make PI ICU to support gMSA for Service creation

gMSA are the way of having secured logins for windows services and we try to spread the awareness to switch from standard user accounts to these account type. However as most of the PI applications supports to define the gMSA during installation o...
Ondřej Kafna about 1 month ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface Configuration Utility (PI ICU) 0 No status

Improve collection of Event Viewer logs in PI Interface for Microsoft Windows Event Log

The PI Interface for Microsoft Windows Event Log can capture Event Viewer Logs. Some of the logs in sub-folders cannot be captured by the interface. This includes logs that store PI information, such as PI Vision with the log: OSIsoft-PIVisualizat...
Ted Birky about 1 month ago in PI Interfaces / Other Interfaces 0 No status

Configure PI Interface for Emerson-Ovation to read drop status points Ovation.

knowing in real-time if an ovation server is down and would help with maintaining the PI server.
Betty 2 months ago in PI Interfaces / Other Interfaces 0 No status

Support dynamic indexes from Linux devices for PI Interface for SNMP

When the interface machine needs to be restarted for any reason, the connection to the source (when a Linux device) is lost because Linux uses dynamic indexes and the Interface does not have a way to manage that. Tags need to be reconfigured every...
Laurie Dieffenbach 5 months ago in PI Interfaces / Other Interfaces 1 Declined

PI Interface for Bacnet: Adding support of ObjectType=Timer

We would like to get a value of ObjectType=Timer object in PI BACNet interface but it is not supported. One of the Timer object contains important time setting and we need to check it every month. However currently we need to check the value from ...
Kenji Hashimoto 5 months ago in PI Interfaces / Other Interfaces 1 Declined