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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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PI Connector for OPC UA

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Warm and cold PI Connector for OPC UA failover

Currently only hot failover is featured for the PI Connector for OPC UA but this creates a lot of strain on the data sources. We need to be able to select warm/cold failover mechanism.
Guest over 2 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for OPC UA 0 No status

A progress bar during data discovery

It would be great to have some indication of how far the Connector is through the data discovery process.
David Scott 7 months ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for OPC UA 0 No status

Switch for using Name of AF Attributes from Browsable Name or Display Name

Add a Switch to the OPC UA Connector that we can choose if we want the AF Attributes to be created using "Browsable Name" or "Display Name". Using the Display Name would make it much easier for us to locate the Attribute and refer to its OPC Tag a...
Guest over 2 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for OPC UA 2 No status

OPC UA 2.x - Health information and connector statistics

In the PI Connector for OPC UA 1.3.x, some very useful statistics are available - Events in DA queue, Data rate, Variables Numbe - but 2.0.x these items are not available anymore. Those items should be available for data selection to be monitored ...
Gabriel Verreault over 2 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for OPC UA 0 No status

Write back to source system

OPC UA PI connector to have a feature to write back data to the source system. Example Watchdog data
Navanita over 2 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for OPC UA 0 No status

View more detailed buffer queue statistics for PI Connector for OPC UA

I would like to get a more detailed view of the buffer queue for the PI Connector for OPC UA. In particular, I would like to be able to see the number of PI Events in the queue (not just the number of Tau Messages) and the amount of space filled i...
Jaedyn Larson over 2 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for OPC UA 4 No status

OPC UA bi directional communication

like the PI Interface OPC DA, it would be good to have the possibility to read and write value back to the source system.
Pascal_13 about 1 year ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for OPC UA 0 No status

Remove AF Requirement for PI Connector for OPC UA

Remove the AF requirement for PI Connector for OPC UA. Users who may only be looking to send data from PI Connector for OPC UA to Data Archive are currently forced to configure connections/security for AF as well during initial setup.
Roger Ward over 2 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for OPC UA 0 No status

Permissions to discover and create tags only

Create the ability to give users permissions to discover and create tags only in PI Data Collection Manager. We were able to give users the ability to only create tags when using OPC DA interfaces, but we can no longer do this with PI DCM. This se...
David Sugden 4 months ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for OPC UA 0 No status

PI Connector for OPC UA Failed to populate Discovered Endpoints list

When pressing the Discover Available Endpoints button under the following condition , it failed to populate the Discovered Endpoints list because of 501 Error: a. NAT configured between PI Connector for OPC UA and OPC UA Server networks b. OPC UA ...
Guest over 2 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for OPC UA 1 No status