AVEVA™ PI System™ Feedback Portal

Welcome to our 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.


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