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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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Upgrade the PI Interface Configuration Utility to use only the Microsoft Visual C++ 2015-2022 Redistributable

The PI Interface Configuration Utility install kit currently includes both the 2012 and the 2019 Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributables. Please upgrade the PI Interface Configuration Utility so that it requires only the Microsoft Visual C++ 2015-20...
Kenneth Barber over 3 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface Configuration Utility (PI ICU) 2 No status

Delete mode in Wonderware InBatch interface

When run in delete mode for WWInBatch interface, it uses the data source as the system of record--any open batch in SQL will be deleted. However, as abandoned or done  batches are open in WonderWare but closed in PI, the interface may delete ...
Willy Seah Wei Liat over 3 years ago in PI Interfaces / Batch Interfaces 0 Declined

Double check window required when deleting an instance in PI Event Frames Interface Manager

As a PI System Admin, I would like to see a confirmation window (acceptation pop-up message), when deleting Interface instances in PI Event Frames Interface Manager. This would minimize the deletion of the instances by error.
Guest over 3 years ago in PI Interfaces / Batch Interfaces 0 No status

Enhance Visibility of Event Frame Generator/Batch Interface History Recovery Status

Currently when running any event frame generator interface (EFGen, PIFTBatch, etc.) in history recovery mode, there is no way to monitor progress of the actual history recovery. The only way to determine status is to check message logs periodicall...
Guest over 3 years ago in PI Interfaces / Batch Interfaces 0 No status

Factory Talk Batch Interface EVT file contains useful data in the Recipe column. Can we please add Recipe as a placeholder in the Interface?

The EVT file from FTB has 27 columns, the most populated one is Recipe. There is useful information there that could be used to filter and select data for storage in PI. Unfortunately it isn't available in the Placeholder list of 42 placeholders f...
Nathan Skitt 9 months ago in PI Interfaces / Batch Interfaces 2 Tell us more

Enhance the PI-ICU to include a rolling buffer regardless of connection to the PI Data Archive

During a Disaster Recovery test our team discovered that there will be up to 24 hours of data loss since our VM's are cloned once a day and the PI-ICU interfaces don't start caching data until the data archive has been disconnected. Essentially - ...
Guest almost 3 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface Configuration Utility (PI ICU) 0 No status

Enable logging of 5.x batch interface messages to the local PI message log again

Message logs for 5.X Batch interfaces and Connectors are written to Windows Event Viewer instead of PI Message Logs as in previous versions. The Windows Event Log is extremely slow compared to viewing PI message logs, the filtering is worse, the m...
Guest over 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / Batch Interfaces 2 Declined

Request for customizing the order of the interface instances in PI ICU interface list.

The interface instances` names contain the plants `names and I want to put the interfaces with the same plant name together in the list.
Guest over 3 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface Configuration Utility (PI ICU) 1 No status

Suppress creation of an AF Element hierarchy

As a PI Admin, I may have already created a AF Element Hierarchy corresponding to my BES or MES source data. Therefore I have no need for the interface to create a new AF Elements and I would like to suppress this completely.
Guest over 3 years ago in PI Interfaces / Batch Interfaces 0 Declined

RDBMS to Eventframe Batch Interface

a lot of your existing Batch Interfaces are based on RDBMS (Simatic Batch, DeltaV, ABB). But there will always be some Batchstorage solutions based on a relational database which are not included in your source system list. For now Honeywell Proce...
Jürgen Schmidt over 3 years ago in PI Interfaces / Batch Interfaces 0 Declined