AVEVA™ PI System™ Feedback Portal

Welcome to our feedback site!


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 Data Archive Installation Wizard should provide an option to restore from a backup or copy current configuration from another PI Server

    As we enter 2020, the process of moving/restoring the PI Data Archive hasn't changed since its inception. Typical procedure to move a PI Data Archive on a new server is to install same version of software and then perform backup/restore of the old...
    Kapil Rakh over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 1 No status

    Compress archives that are backed up using "Copy"

    Currently, when a "copy" backup occurs, the archives are copied as-is. Archive files take up a lot of space, but they also compress very well (if you deleted a bunch of tags without creating as many new ones), and since archive backups are rarely ...
    Kenneth Barber over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No status

    Improve PI Server Installation kit: disk space requirements should include the minimal PI Backup

    When calculating the disk space requirements on a recent upgrade the drive was expected to have only 138 MB installed. But the install failed due to not enough disk space on the drive because the minimal backup needed a certain amount of disk spac...
    Nathan Skitt over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 1 No status

    PI AF Link & PIBatch - Ability to uninstall it

    PI AF Link is not included in PI 2018 but it would be good to be able to remove the link during an upgrade. (not possible today https://customers.osisoft.com/s/knowledgearticle?knowledgeArticleUrl=000027668). Same for PIBatch which cannot be unins...
    Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 1 No status

    AI Detection for Stale Points

    As a PI System administrator, it would be helpful if the PI Server had an artificial intelligence or machine learning system which could recognize the normal updating patterns of a PI Point and report when a tag was not receiving updates properly ...
    Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No status

    Provide a MUI Kit for the Data Archive / SMT

    Provide a MUI Kit for the Data Archive / SMT
    David Scott almost 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No status

    Add Archive Statistics to AFSDK

    I would like to be able to request current Event Queue, Primary Event Queue, and Archive Events counters programmatically in order to perform my own throttling when backfilling from external systems. This becomes especially important if you also h...
    Le vi over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 1 No status

    Auto Archive Management - Shift vs. Delete

    Currently, there are two methods to 'shift' archives: 1. "Archive_AutoArchiveFileRoot" set to blank 2. "Archive_OverwriteDataOnAutoShiftFailure" enabled Neither method shifts to dynamic archives. We have three sites that merged PI servers, thus ha...
    Pete Long over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 1 No status

    Supporting Decimal type for PI tag in PI Data Archive

    For customers from special fields (eg: Pharma industry ), they would like the value to be accessed as exactly 16.168 , and would like to know if data type " Decimal " can be introduced for PI tags in PI Data Archive; Just like the following descri...
    Peng Li over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No status

    Export Multiple Audit Logs into one XML/TXT File

    The pidiag -xa utility doesn't support selecting a folder location and exporting the contents to a single XML/TXT file. This would be very helpful for bulk auditing actions.
    Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 1 No status