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.

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System Management

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Allow PI Collective members to be permanently represented by alias names

For example, in PI SDK, when viewing "member setup" for a PI Collective, it is desired for the names of the members to always be represented as a DNS alias or SDK alias. At the outset of PI Collective creation, in PI Collective Manager for instanc...
Ryan Biggins 5 months ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 0 No status

Allow adding naming conventions

Administrating large systems require providing naming standards (for example when implementing international standards like ISA95) for various system elements: PI Point, AF DBs, Elements, Templates and so on. AVEVA software could support naming co...
Czuprynski 6 months ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 0 No status

Easy selection of PI Archives to Backup

Currently, if we want to do a backup of an archive in SMT, we have to tick it. But the customer may has like 500 archives and wants to copy 100 of them. There is currently no friendly-user way to select multiple archives (without unregister them) ...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 0 No status

Add ability to honor archive list file locations when adding new server to PI HA Collective

When adding a new server to a PI HA Collective, all archive files selected to be included in the initialization are copied and registered with the new server in one defined location in collective manager.  This can create more manual work for...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 1 No status

PI SMT - Archive Editor Improvements

Why is the second server of all selected servers the default selected server for the archive editor? (C# index 1 instead of 0?) If I leave the Tagname empty and press the search button the tag search dialog opens fine. But if I enter some text at...
HolgerJoistOmv over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 0 No status

Increase Box Length for Tagname Field in Archive Editor

The Tagname field visible length should be increased within Archive Editor in System Management Tools. The full tag name is limited and cannot tell what is listed because the name is cut off. (See screenshot and steps listed below.) Steps to repr...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 0 No status

Expose connection history information to PI SMT

As PI System administrator, I would like to know the number of clients connection given a time frame. (e.g. * -1 month) Currently, this is only exposed to the pidiag command line utility. It would help me as a pi system admin to see it within a us...
Jinmo Yi over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 0 No status

Replace "timeout parameters" with "tuning parameters" in the description of the PITUNING Database Security table

In PI System Management Tools, under the Database Security plugin, the description of the PITUNING table is: "Controls access to Timeout parameters and the Firewall" "Timeout parameters" is the old name for "tuning parameters", I'm guessing from ...
Kenneth Barber over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 0 No status

Make the tuning parameter Base_AllowSIDLookupFailureForMapping visible by default

When this tuning parameter is enabled, it prevents a PI Collective from being flagged as out-of-sync when some of the PI Collective members can resolve the SID of a PI Mapping and others cannot. However, by default, this tuning parameter is hidden...
Kenneth Barber over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 0 No status

Improve Digital State Set Management

We have hundreds of digital state sets, many of them the same with the exception of their name (e.g., Manual_Auto, ManualAuto, Manual-Auto, Manuel-Auto, ManuelAutomatique; all with states 0: Manual and 1: Auto). In order to clean up these states, ...
Kelsey Bobeck about 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 0 No status