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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Delete precommit folder after backup whether backup is successful or not

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Guest over 2 years 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

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

Add a "save changes" warning to the SMT Point Builder

In the Point Builder, if the user makes a change to one tag and they click on a different tag, ask them if they want to save/discard changes.
Kenneth Barber over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 2 Declined

Progress Bar for deleting large volumes of data in SMT->Archive editor.

Progress bar for SMT->Archive Editor when deleting large volume of data. Currently, when deleting around 30,000 events it takes approx 20 mins and the GUI appears to hang and become unresponsive (it is actually working). A progress bar would a...
Dave Tayler over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 0 Declined

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 over 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 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