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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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Create 2 new client install kits: PI System Client & PI For Excel

Administrators and regular users of PI are mainly concerned with these PI client programs: PI System Management Tools PI System Explorer PI Builder PI DataLink However, the install kits are not beginner-friendly: Many users think that PI DataLink ...
Kenneth Barber over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Installation 4 No status

Add 'Time Zone = Server' to PI OLEDB Enterprise

'Time Zone = Server' is available in PI OLEDB Provider, but has not been added to 'PI OLEDB Enterprise'. We have PI Data Archives in multiple time zones and require the ability to select the data in the server time zone.
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI System Access (PSA) / PI OLEDB Enterprise 2 Declined

Have a consistent presence of a terminating \ in the PIHOME and PIHOME64 environment variables

By default, PIHOME is "C:\Program Files (x86)\PIPC" and PIHOME64 is "C:\Program Files\PIPC\". For new installations, please consider either having the terminating \ on both or removing the terminating \ from both. The current inconsistency can con...
Kenneth Barber over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Installation 0 No status

Remove PI System Explorer (Legacy 32-bit) from PI AF Client

When PI AF Client is installed, it includes a program called "PI System Explorer (Legacy 32-bit)". Please remove this from PI AF Client. The continued support of 32-bit PI AF SDK makes sense, since 3rd-party programs may still depend on the 32-bit...
Kenneth Barber over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Installation 2 No status

The PI Server Installation kit should list the PI software requirements sooner in the install

As a PI System Administrator, I would like the PI Server Installation kit to list out any PI Software that will be included with a selected role or feature before the Summary step so that I can determine what will be installed without having to fi...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Installation 0 No status

Provide the option to install the PI OLEDB Enterprise Server Agent without installing PI RTQP Engine

Currently if you are using the PI SQL Data Access Server (RTQP Engine) 2023 SP1 install kit to install the PI OLEDB Enterprise Server Agent, you must also install the RTQP Engine as well. As a PI System Admin, I would like the option to only insta...
Bethany Jewett 9 months ago in AVEVA™ PI System Access (PSA) / PI OLEDB Enterprise 0 No status

Add in the Element Hierarchy table information to determine the primary reference of a copied reference element

When an element is copied as reference (parent-child) elsewhere in the tree it then has multiple parents. One of it is the primary parent. This information needs to be added to the hierarchy tables.
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI System Access (PSA) / PI OLEDB Enterprise 1 Declined

Installer screen should read 'PI Data Archive Install Directory' instead of 'PI Data Archive Directory'

For an upgrade - misleading - could be interpreted as the folder where PI archives currently reside.
BruceMcCamant over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Installation 0 No status

Allow PI OLEDB Enterprise client to specify which member of a PI Data Archive Collective to connect to.

Enable functionality for PI OLEDB Enterprise that will allow the client to specify which member of a PI Data Archive collective they wish to connect to. This functionality has already been enabled for PSE and would like something similar for PI OL...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI System Access (PSA) / PI OLEDB Enterprise 0 Declined

Consistently name the local groups that PI adds

Some examples of names of the local groups that PI adds are: AFQueryEngines AFServers PI Buffering Administrators PI Connector Administrators PI Web API Admins Please consider making the naming more consistent. For example: PI Asset Framework Que...
Kenneth Barber over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Installation 0 Declined