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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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Add AVEVA Adapters to the Enterprise Agreement

Before, one of the main attractions of the Enterprise Agreement (EA) was that you get unlimited access to all standard PI Interfaces and PI Connectors. However, now that AVEVA Adapters are the successors to PI Interfaces and PI Connectors, and sin...
Kenneth Barber about 4 years ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / General 2 Declined

Detect and monitor which OPC UA server the PI Adapter is connected to

When configuring a PI Adapter to leverage server-level redundancy, it is not currently possible to monitor which server instance the PI Adapter is connected to. Surfacing this information would allow server administrators to better monitor the hea...
Giulio Cattarin over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / AVEVA Adapter for OPC UA 3 Future consideration

Automated discovery on a schedule

Enable Regular Discovery: While not continuous by default, discovery can be scripted or scheduled to run periodically for dynamic environments include this as a feature, so that automatic discovery and automatic addition of new discoveries can be ...
Nick Ciampa 8 months ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / AVEVA Adapter for OPC UA 1 No status

Add a parameter for the Adapter to increase the Keep-Alive wait time

Currently, there is no parameter on the Adapter side to increase the Keep-Alive wait time. It would be best to add parameter for the Adapter to increase the Keep-Alive wait time.
Alexa Derago 4 months ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / AVEVA Adapter for OPC UA 0 No status

Use the HTTPS versions of links in "Help link", "Support link", and "Update information" in Control Panel → Programs and Features

In Control Panel → Programs and Features, when you click on the PI programs in general (i.e. not just those that are part of PI Server), you will see that most of them use an HTTP link for their "Help link", "Support link", and "Update information...
Kenneth Barber about 4 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Installation 4 Planned

Support OPC UA ReverseConnect

Support ReverseConnect, allowing for the connection to be establish from the more secure area where the OPC Server reside to the least secure area where the OPC Client / Adapter resides. This is implemented in many other client tools and SDK such...
Gabriel Verreault about 4 years ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / AVEVA Adapter for OPC UA 1 No status

Add another Archive Mode option for the PI Interface for UFL

There should be a way to configure the PI UFL interface to both discard duplicate events (same value at the same timestamp) and record multiple unique values for the same timestamp when these events come from multiple data files. For example, if...
Guest about 4 years ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / General 0 Tell us more

PI Adapter High Availability Resilience

Problem Summary: The client failover service for PI adapter is not highly available. If the client failover service node is unavailable, then the PI adapter instances that it manages will lose failover functionality. This is further exacerbated if...
GaryYegiazaryan about 3 years ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / General 2 No status

Adapter for RDBMS to support multiple rows with same "Timestamp" colum as IndexColumn

As of version 1.x, with the IndexColumn being specified in the dataselection, the Adapter will require that each row in the source Database to have its own unique timestamp. If there are multiple rows with the same timestamp, first value with the ...
Ee Sheing Lee about 3 years ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / AVEVA Adapter for RDBMS 4 Tell us more

Add the option "Ignore Bad_WaitingForInitialData Status"

In the connectors there was the option "Ignore Bad_WaitingForInitialData Status", as described here. For gen 1 there was a need to edit the config files directly, and in gen 2 the option was integrated into the UI. Instead for the adapter I recent...
sahilp almost 3 years ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / AVEVA Adapter for OPC UA 0 No status