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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    Reduce PI ICU Lauch Time

    PI Interfaces are still very much widespread and as such PI ICU is used frequently by PI Engineers to create and configure interfaces to the PI System. PI ICU is a frequently used application but in the current layout, every time PI ICU is launche...
    Moshe Sabag 4 months ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface Configuration Utility (PI ICU) 1 No status

    NLog for PI Batch Interfaces

    PI Batch Interfaces 5.0 or later log messages to Windows Event Viewer, which can lead to them being quickly overwritten and making troubleshooting issues or performing root cause analyses more difficult. It would be great if they used NLog as othe...
    Rafael Batista 4 months ago in PI Interfaces / Batch Interfaces 0 No status
    106 VOTE

    Support Analysis Data Reference Step Functionality

    Use case: User wants to trend Analysis Data Reference in client tools (Processbook, Coresight). User doesn’t want to create a PI tag for this output. Currently, the AnalysisDR ignores step, even if it’s input attributes are step.
    Guest almost 4 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 9 No status
    104 VOTE

    Be able to disable auto backfilling on a per analysis basis

    Currently in the analysis service configuration there is a parameter called “AutoBackfillingEnabled” which affects the analysis calculations in a global basis. It would be great if it were possible to disable the auto backfilling to individual cal...
    Guest almost 4 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 8 No status
    104 VOTE

    Analytics function for Last Good Value

    We have come across a number of occasions where we want to bring in the last good value of an attribute as an input to an analytics.  But there is no way to do this without additional attributes and analytics.  It would be convenient if ...
    taterhead247 almost 4 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 10 Tell us more

    PI Batch Interfaces (EFGEN) Reliability During Recovery Runs

    The Batch interfaces currently handle recovery processes very unreliably which could end up stopping the whole AF server. We believe the stability of the interface running recoveries should be carefully handled to ensure the whole AF server enviro...
    Moshe Sabag 4 months ago in PI Interfaces / Batch Interfaces 0 No status

    Improvement: EFGen in PIBaGen compatibility mode it is not possible to disable merging at the Procedure/Batch level

    It would be nice if it was possible to configure PIEFGen in PIBaGen mode to configure it to either merge consecutive event frames or disable merging of consecutive event frames at the Procedure level. For example, in PI Batch Generator interface c...
    Guest 17 days ago in PI Interfaces / Other Interfaces 0 No status

    PI Batch Interfaces (EFGEN) Performance Counters Reliability

    The Batch interfaces currently handle performance counters configuration extremely unreliably. To explain: Performance counters are not allowing naming convention to be applied and are forcing hard-coded tags naming giving rise to conflicts betw...
    Moshe Sabag 4 months ago in PI Interfaces / Batch Interfaces 0 No status

    ICU startup on high latency networks

    On high latency networks, it can take ICU many minutes to start because every interface on the PI Data Archive is checked. Minimize startup time by caching a node's registered interfaces.
    Guest almost 4 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface Configuration Utility (PI ICU) 13 Future consideration

    PI Interface for SNMP to support using all types of SNMPv3 encryption and authentication

    Support for all types of encryption and authentication; namely AES-192, AES-256, and SHA-256 (and higher)
    timothy chiles about 1 year ago in PI Interfaces / Other Interfaces 0 No status