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AVEVA™ PI System™ Feedback Portal

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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 message logs easier to export in bulk

Tech support often asks customers for message logs in bulk. The PISDKUtility and SMT are not good for this because they run out of memory if you try to load too many messages. The only way to export the logs is to use the command line pigetmsg uti...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 0 Declined

Delete precommit folder after backup whether backup is successful or not

No description provided
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 0 No status

Data Collection Manager User management

We are running a central DCM Server in our site to maintain the dataflow between different UA Connectors and different DataArchive/AF pairs. We use this DCM to restart Connectors and to browse and select new Tags on a OPC UA Server. As central Ad...
Jürgen Schmidt over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 1 No status

Allow users to find AF element templates more easily

As I add new elements to a data transfer, I want to easily find an element template by typing its first few letters or expanding the template tree (organized by inheritance). Currently, all I can do is scrolling down a list of templates, which can...
Clement Dekeyser about 1 year ago in PI to CONNECT / General 0 No status

interpolated datasets

Archived dataset is not required
Guest 9 months ago in PI to CONNECT / General 0 No status

Allow PI Buffer Subsystem (pibufss) to be managed by Powershell tools for the PI System

Powershell is a convenient way to administer a PI Server. One limitation, however, is that there is no built-in functionality for administering pibufss with powershell. Please add PI Buffer Subsystem (pibufss) management to Powershell tools for th...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 0 No status

several Instances for PI Relay

Having the PI Relay for OPC UA Connector running on a different machine than the actual connector is a good Idea, as we are now able to provide Windows credentials for AF Access without Credential manager. On our Site we are running several small...
Jürgen Schmidt over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 0 No status

Improve performance of creating large numbers of new tags

I have three large customers who have experienced PI Data Archive performance issues when large numbers of tags are being created. Specifically, record locks seem to take an extra large time (e.g., more than 15 minutes) to clear, and data updates ...
Laurie Dieffenbach about 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 1 No status

Enable Dynamic Transfer Selection Criteria that PI to CONNECT periodically re-evaluates

Have an option such that the transfer selection criteria are dynamically evaluated. Example: User selects AF root node Chooses "all elements" below that node Rather than explicit selection of add elements, evaluate dynamically so that as elements ...
Brian Deslatte over 1 year ago in PI to CONNECT / General 0 No status

Alert if ingress detected to be in a bad state

During 2 recent lighthouse projects, most recently with Kimball Electronics, the machine hosting the PI to CONNECT agent experienced a reboot due to patch installations. PI to CONNECT didn't properly restart (we'll investigate that separately) and...
Guest over 1 year ago in PI to CONNECT / General 0 No status