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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System Management

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Configuration as Code PI System wide

"As a business owner, I want to set up change control procedures where any change to the PI System, be it the data archive, asset framework, PI Interfaces, PI Connectors, or any other component is done through a change in source controlled configu...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 0 Declined

Mappings & Trusts User Tracking

It would sure be nice if OSI had a way to better manage users access, because we know there are a lot of people who have the client tools but move to a different job or end up not needing them, so we want to pull their license/programs away and gi...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 1 Declined

Dynamic inventory of PI System components

Provide a way to have an online, dynamic inventory of installed PI System components, especially interfaces.
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 0 No status

Skip Numbers in Digital State / Digital Set

There are other similar ideas out there on this site but I would like to see the ability to skip numbers in the Digital States Enumeration. We have areas of the plant that have states which don't map well to a 1,2,3.... set of states. Some are bit...
matthew.bauder over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 1 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

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 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 0 No status

Remove the PI Interface Configuration Utility (PI ICU) from the PI System Management Tools (PI SMT) install kit

PI System Management Tools is more of a client-side program, so it does not make sense for it to be packaged with a server-side program like the PI Interface Configuration Utility. This increases the size of the install kit, increases the extracti...
Kenneth Barber over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 1 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

option to manually disable secondary collective member synchronization

I have experienced several synchronization errors with data archives running on virtual machines in separate errors, generally after MS updates. Please provide a way to stop synchronization of configurations between collective members, so I can pe...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 1 No status

By default, do not install the PI Module Database Builder when the PI System Management Tools install kit is run

Similar to how the PI DataLink install kit included PI DataLink (Legacy) but required manual modification to setup.ini in order to install it (this was before PI DataLink Legacy was dropped from the PI DataLink install kit entirely), the PI Module...
Kenneth Barber over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 1 No status