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AVEVA™ PI System™ Feedback Portal

Welcome to our feedback site!


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.

To start, take a look at the ideas in the list below and VOTE for your favorite ideas submitted by other users. POST your own idea if it hasn’t been suggested yet. Include COMMENTS and share relevant business case details that will help our product team get more information on the suggestion. Please note that your ideas and comments are visible to all other users.


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PI Connector for HART-IP / Support SECURE data transfer

I work with an global oil and gas company who is interested in collecting data using the PI Connector for HART-IP but their IT requires them to utilize SECURE data transfer. The current connector only utilizes STANDARD data transfer. The lack ...
Guest almost 4 years ago in PI Connectors / Other specific PI Connector 1 No status

The PI Connector for WITSML should be able to perform history recovery and real-time data collection at the same time

As a PI System Administrator, I would like to configure the data collection mode for the PI Connector for WITSML for each data source so that I can perform history recovery and real-time data collection without having to host multiple installation...
Guest almost 4 years ago in PI Connectors / Other specific PI Connector 0 No status

The MQTT Connector should be able to connect to MQTT Brokers that requires Client SSL Certificate.

Currently the MQTT Connector only supports username/password authentication. This is great for local brokers/servers, but very unpractical when connecting to cloud brokers like AWS IoT Core. Adding support for Client SSL authentication will make i...
Guest almost 4 years ago in PI Connectors / Other specific PI Connector 1 No status

PI Connector for GE eTerraHabitat

As a GE eTerraHabitat user, I would like to have a nice way to choose which tags I want to create on the PI System, without having to force them through the Approved Changes folder on the installation directory of the Connector. It would be better...
Guest almost 4 years ago in PI Connectors / Other specific PI Connector 0 Declined

Alert user when the interface discards values

Example:  When using a distribution tag, the number of tags returned and number of values sent to PI can be mismatched, due to missing aliases or data that does not need to be collected. It would be helpful to identify what values are droppe...
Guest almost 4 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface for RDBMS 0 No status

Upgrade the PI Interface Configuration Utility to use only the latest Microsoft Visual C++ 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 latest Microsoft Visual C++ ...
Kenneth Barber almost 4 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface Configuration Utility (PI ICU) 2 No status

PItoPI should switch from COLD to WARM failover instead of exiting

As of version 3.8.1 COLD failover is no longer supported by the PI to PI Interface (https://techsupport.osisoft.com/Troubleshooting/Enhancements/19255OSI8). However, older versions supported COLD failover. In the case of upgrading the interfaces, ...
Guest almost 4 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI to PI Interface 2 No status

Support dynamic OPC addresses

My OPC server's items have the OPC server node name included in the itemID, for example: serverA.AB_1234.PV. I have redundant OPC servers and redundant interfaces (in failover) and would like the tags to refer to the correct OPC address including ...
Guest almost 4 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface for OPC DA 0 No status

Use /opcstopstat when both interfaces in failover pair are shut down

We would like to have some sort of digital state such as "Intf Shut" written to all OPC tags when both interfaces in a failover pair are shut down. Currently, the /opcstopstat and /stopstat parameters (which write a specified state to all tags wh...
Guest almost 4 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface for OPC DA 0 No status

Add a watchdog counter to API shared memory

Add a watchdog counter or something similar into the shared memory header. If the counter fails to update, initiate UFO. If PIBufSS crashes, data loss can occur.  implement something that allows UniInt to know that the Buffer Subsystem is n...
Clint Ramsey almost 4 years ago in PI Interfaces / General 1 No status