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AVEVA™ PI System™ Feedback Portal

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PI Interfaces

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Modify the Modbus Interface to accept 32-bit Unsigned Ints from the PLC

provide a data type to accept a 4 byte unsigned integer from the PLC.  At this point, it would be stored in a 64-bit float in PI DA.
Clint Ramsey about 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interfaces for Modbus 3 Declined

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 4 months ago in PI Interfaces / Other Interfaces 1 Declined

RDBMS Interface version that support the failovertime > 20s (UFO_Interval)

If you have a query that lasts longer than 40s and a phase2 failover configuration is used. The interfaces switch constantly from primary to secondary and viceversa. With the parameter "UFO interval" you can control this behavior. However, this pa...
MiguelPalomo about 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface for RDBMS 1 Declined

Support multiple Modbus devices on the same machine

Add support for multiple Modbus devices (using the same IP address but different port numbers) on the same machine. For example, the interface could allow the user to configure something like this: /dn= xxx.xx.xxx.xx:43120,/cn=1,/polldelay=0,/to...
Guest about 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interfaces for Modbus 3 Declined

and operator

Add a function that can be used in the UFL Configuration File to perform bitwise operations. For example, a function similar to the AND operator in Performance Equations and Asset Analytics.
Guest about 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface for UFL 1 Declined

Allow PItoPI APS connector to sync "Point Type" changes

Currently (as of PI to PI Interface AutoPointSync Connector Version 1.5.0.7), it's not possible to sync changes to "Point type". (See pg 5 of user manual). Please make this possible in a future release.
Guest about 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / General 0 Declined

PI OPCtoCSV tool to continue running and skip branches in error

The PI Interface for OPC DA is packaged with the PI OPCtoCSV tool which extracts all OPC Items. When the tool is run into error with certain branches, the tool will stop and disconnected from the OPC server/tunneller. For example: “GetItemProperti...
Ee Sheing Lee about 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / General 1 Declined

Support Automatic Failover for PI UFL

Currently UFL only supports two independent instances for redundancy purposes.
Guest about 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface for UFL 0 Declined

Allow using SQL as a data source for FactoryTalk Batch

Rockwell FactoryTalk Batch v12.01 allows to output batch data to a SQL database as well as EVT files. Just like with EMDVB, the PI Interface for FTBatch should be able to use both data sources.
Alan Izar about 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / Batch Interfaces 1 Declined

Enhance element creation to use user defined element templates

The interface can automatically create an element at each level of event frames, but the elements do not derive from a template and there is no way to specify any attributes on the element. The enhancement request is to create elements that are ba...
Guest about 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / Batch Interfaces 0 Declined