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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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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

Add documentation on architectural best practice

When setting up PI to Connect Agent transfers, we need to emphasize in the documentation that we recommend installation of the PI Agent on the same network, and in the same physical location, but not on the same server as the PI server it will be ...
Guest over 1 year ago in PI to CONNECT / Help / Documentation / Videos 0 No status

PI Web API OMF renaming of PIPoints without having to delete on API -> rename on PI-> readd on API

When we have an existing PIPoint with a given name, we can't rename it through OMF (which is a pity), requiring the operator of the system to delete the ExDesc from the point, renaming the Point in the PI Server and them readding them through the ...
Guest 5 months ago in Developer Resources / Open Message Format (OMF) 0 No status

Launch history recovery data transfers in steps

When we want to backfill all data from a PI Server into CONNECT Data Services, this could be long and painful. A single data transfer to perform such for a few years may take weeks. It would be good to have the ability to specify an "endtime" alon...
Christian Leroux about 1 year ago in PI to CONNECT / General 0 No status

export version, configuration and health information for reporting

would like to build report based on the available information. Ex: version installed, configuration of the PI software and their health status.
Guest almost 4 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 1 Declined

Suppress [-15011] PIvalue Type is Not Numeric

An option to suppress "[-15011] PIvalue Type is Not Numeric" when there is a non-numeric OOO event (e.g. string or digital value) between the pibufss last compressed event and snapshot event. While these messages are only informational they can qu...
Guest almost 4 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 0 Declined

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 almost 4 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 0 Declined

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 almost 4 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 0 No status

Delete precommit folder after backup whether backup is successful or not

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Guest almost 4 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 almost 4 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 1 No status