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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.

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Ability to wait successful connection to PI Data Archive and download PI point information during startup

(Posted on behalf of our customer) It can reduce the chance of startup failure because of the connection to PI Data Archive time-out. It's also helpful if interface can reduce time to get PI point information from PI Data Archive.
Guest about 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / General 0 No status

Monthly scans

Allow for monthly scan intervals for scan classes. i.e. "scan monthly on the first hour of the first day of every month".
Guest about 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / General 3 No status

Allowing output point with source tag to keep working even after switching to secondary server

When primary server is down, secondary server is accessed instead of primary server, which is good. However, in the case of output point with source tag, it stops working, then restarting the interface instance of interest is needed. Of course, if...
Toshiro Chiba about 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / General 0 No status

Retire 32-bit versions of PI Interfaces that have a 64-bit version

These days, 32-bit operating systems are used for 1 of 2 reasons: Somebody accidentally installed the 32-bit version instead of the 64-bit version, which is a mistake that OSIsoft has no obligation to accommodate. The computer is very old, in whic...
Kenneth Barber about 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / General 1 No status

Migrate the PI Universal Interface (UniInt) Framework to use PI AF SDK

Most PI Interfaces are based on the PI Universal Interface (UniInt) Framework and rely on PI API and its successor, PI SDK. PI SDK has, in turn, been superseded by PI AF SDK. PI SDK also relies on the deprecated and insecure ActiveX technology, wh...
Kenneth Barber about 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / General 0 No status

BUG: GE HABConnect with BitContainers

I have a case that was closed in 2017, where someone provided a workaround executable for the Interface that fixed the issue. I am assuming they were able to detect a bit container field if the MASK was set for the pitag, but unsure. However after...
Guest over 1 year ago in PI Interfaces / General 0 No status

Interface / Connector to the SILA Lab Equipment Standard

Hi all,   i got to know this standard: Standards – SiLA Rapid Integration This standard is a really good approach to connect various types of lab equipment. Over it it is possible to fetch for example the RPM of a mixing device, temperature o...
Guest about 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / General 0 No status

Remotely view logs

I understand that you can remotely view logs using pigetmsg. However this solution does not work for me as the interface is on a controlled network that only allows outbound traffic. I would like a way for the interface node to be able to push out...
Guest about 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / General 1 No status

Improved handling of PI Write failures

Provide a configuration option in UniInt interfaces, to enable shutdown of the interface if it consistently receives error messages when attempting to write to PI. Recently had an interface successfully connect to PI but not achieve write access t...
Guest about 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / General 0 No status

Allow scan class 0 to be monitored via Performance Counters

As a PI System Administrator, I would like to monitor the point count and other parameters for scan class 0 via Performance Counters. Currently, this is only exposed via the UniInt Health Tags.
Guest about 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / General 0 No status