AVEVA™ PI System™ Feedback Portal

Welcome to our new 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.


This page is for feedback specifically for AVEVA PI System. For links to our other feedback portals, please see the tab RESOURCES below.

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System Management

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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 2 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...
juergen.b.schmidt almost 2 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...
juergen.b.schmidt almost 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 0 No Status

MarkArchiveGaps tuning parameter description should be more descriptive

The description for the MarkArchiveGaps tuning parameter for a value of 2 is unclear. A user might interpret: 2 - Gap markers only when there is an actual gap between two consecutive archives. to mean that markers are shown when a tag does not h...
Guest almost 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 0 No Status

Dynamic inventory of PI System components

Provide a way to have an online, dynamic inventory of installed PI System components, especially interfaces.
Guest almost 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 almost 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 1 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 almost 2 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 through...
Guest almost 2 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 almost 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 almost 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 0 No Status