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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    Make failback function optional

    In the DA collective there is a function called "Failback". The function is described as: << When the collective member which the client application was connected to becomes unavailable, the client connection starts monitoring when the memb...
    ErikJansson over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No status

    in point builder remove the ability to delete pi point on right click.

    Remove the ability to delete pi point on right click in PI SMT Point Builder Put this function elsewhere
    Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 10 No status

    Pre-installation system wide compatibility check

    As a system administrator, I would like a comprehensive tool to validate system and version compatibility across my entire PI system.  When performing upgrades / adding components to my PI infrastructure, it takes considerable time to comb th...
    Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 1 No status

    Sizing sheet should include at least minimal support for AF Audit Trail

    Currently there is not a single hint nor guidance on the impact of the Audit Trail in the sizing sheet, while the Audit Trail can have a major impact on the storage requirements.
    Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 0 No status

    Align the Archive_AutoArchiveSize and Minimum Archive Size to be based on Tag Count, not Record Number Count

    Schedule data archive shifts occur and create archive files based upon a Minimum Archive Size calculation. This calculation is based upon the total count of record numbers. When large amounts of tags are deleted, the total number of tags is reduce...
    Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 0 No status

    Buffer subsystem to handle deleted values

    Can buffer subsystem be enhanced to manage value deletions from tags? We have a collective and utilize buffering to send data to both collective members however we have to jump through hoops to delete data from both collective members. It would be...
    ehoffman over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 1 No status

    smarter calculation of PI Backup required free space

    When backfilling tags from AF its very easy to update many archives. I would like the backup script to only require free space for archives that don't exist in the target folder. We have periodic incremental backup failures do to a lack of free di...
    Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 3 No status

    Replace the batch (.bat) scripts in the %PISERVER% folder with PowerShell (.ps1) scripts

    This replacement is appropriate for several reasons: PowerShell is easier to read and is a more powerful language than the batch language. Batch scripts are best used in Windows, whereas PowerShell is cross-platform. This replacement will support ...
    Kenneth Barber over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 1 No status

    Optimize and compress non-primary historic archive files

    Currently, the same file format is used for primary and non-primary historic archive files. This does not make much sense since the two types are used very differently. For the primary archive: Write operations should be fast since it is collectin...
    Kenneth Barber over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 4 No status

    Allow PIWorld and piusers to be deleted

    Nobody should be using the "PIWorld" PI Identity or the "piusers" PI Group. The most that we can do at the moment is disable them. It would be much better if we can just delete them and never look back.
    Kenneth Barber over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 2 No status