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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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Have option to publish data only when the value changes

As a user for PI Integrator for BA, I would like to have an option to only publish data when the value changes. The use case: a point is calculated via analysis service once a minute, and the value does not change often. I want the data to be publ...
Guest over 3 years ago in PI Integrators / AVEVA™ PI Integrator for Business Analytics 0 Declined

Support attribute renames

When an attribute(s) name changes, I would like the Integrator to propagate that change to existing views that contain the attribute. The Integrator does support element renames but not attribute name changes. Currently, we have to republish the a...
Guest over 3 years ago in PI Integrators / AVEVA™ PI Integrator for Business Analytics 0 No status

Expose additional Kafka target configuration options

To accommodate high frequency messages to Apache Kafka brokers, additional tuning of Kafka producers can be necessary to prevent high CPU and Disk I/O load. The PI Integrator should expose these parameters to allow users the ability to adjust thei...
Guest over 3 years ago in PI Integrators / AVEVA™ PI Integrator for Business Analytics 1 No status

Subsecond Cropping for Improved Timestamp Handling

The OPCDA interface currently can only handle subsceonds by ignoring them as mentioned in "Ignore Subsecond Timestamps" under PI Interface for OPC DA - Data Handling settings. However there are use cases where users would like to simply limit the ...
Mohammed Shahin over 1 year ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface for OPC DA 0 No status

Make PI ICU to support gMSA for Service creation

gMSA are the way of having secured logins for windows services and we try to spread the awareness to switch from standard user accounts to these account type. However as most of the PI applications supports to define the gMSA during installation o...
Ondřej Kafna over 1 year ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface Configuration Utility (PI ICU) 0 No status

PI Interface for Ramp Soak Simulator Data - Update Time Period To Seconds

To simulate data using the PI Interface for Ramp Soak Simulator Data, the ExDesc of the PI Point needs to be of the format: (period, end_value) period is the time in minutes. end_value is the value for the tag at the end of the phase period. Cur...
Mohammed Qasim Asghar 12 months ago in PI Interfaces / Other Interfaces 0 No status

Batch interfaces keeping merged child operation EventFrames open until the parent Operation EventFrame has been closed.

Currently for batch interfaces using the /MUP parameter, child operation event frames might be reopened and closed multiple times until the last operation event frame closes and the child event frame is closed for good. For example with UnitProced...
Guest about 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / Batch Interfaces 0 No status

Enhance pitopi.ini sections to include point source to make them unique

The pitopi.ini file is used by the pitopi interface for collecting data from multiple sources and to save other miscellaneous settings such as 'histonly' flags. The configuration ini file uses sections to separate settings between instances with a...
Guest over 3 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI to PI Interface 2 No status

PItoPI should give indication when it is stuck querying a corrupt source archive

Currently, PItoPI interface can get "stuck" if it is querying a source data archive that is corrupt with no indication that this is what's happening.  It appears to be sending data to the destination server, but no data is received.  It ...
Guest over 3 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI to PI Interface 1 No status

Support Analysis Backfill of Source Tag

Many of our source tags sending data to a central Data Archive are populated with data from analyses on the source AF Server. This creates two problems when we perform a backfill that recalculates data over a specified timespan for the source tag:...
Guest over 3 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI to PI Interface 0 No status