AVEVA™ PI System™ Feedback Portal

Welcome to our new 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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Thresholds for PI Points

It would be nice to have threshold attributes for pi points. Then we could configure that values received from the source outside this limits would be ignored (not stored), substituted by the respective threshold value or even by an "Over\Under Ra...
Guest over 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 2 Declined

PI Data Archive - import tags and merge historic archives together

As a customer who is moving their PI Data Archive historic data to a Centralized IT Facility, hosting another PI Data Archive, and that would like to import tags and historic data from another PI Data Archive, it would be great to have a functiona...
Guest over 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No Status

Method to backup and restore PI Points only

The PI backup tools currently do not have a method to backup only the files related to PI Points. The purpose of this would be to refresh the point table on a QA system from a production system. The current PI backup method is all or nothing.
GaryYegiazaryan over 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No Status

Negative numbers in digitalsets

Negative numbers in digitalsets for all PI interface and skip numbers, basically that the digitalset is like the enum of AF
Guest over 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 1 No Status

PI Server should recover from any ungraceful shutdown

While the recovery mechanism for queue corruption is much more robust on newer version of PI Data Archive compared to previous versions, there are still few cases where PI Data Archive does not fully recover from ungraceful shutdowns. PI Server sh...
Guest over 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 Declined

Reduce archive file size by eliminating unused record numbers

Background: On a Data Archive where many points have been deleted, there will be many unused record numbers. Since the size of an archive file is tied to the highest existing record number (for performance reasons), this can result in archive file...
Guest over 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 5 Declined

Use of aliases for tag names

Allow the creation of tag name aliases.  This would allow us to present more user friendly option for tag name searches.  It would also help present a standardized tag name to users for tags from sources that don't follow our standard tag naming c...
Guest over 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 1 Declined

Ability to Identify Critical (e.g. GxP) PI Tag in SMT

A checkbox or some mechanism to identify Critical data point (e.g GxP) in SMT. * can be used for search filter to separate critical vs. non-critical data (gxp vs non-gxp) * possible additional layer of confirmation/prompt prior deletion (?)   Curr...
Guest over 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 1 No Status

Built-in feature to automatically move archive files past a certain age to a different directory

Automatically move archives from a disk to another based on their age. Use case: I only want to keep the last 2y of data on a SSD and the remaining will be stored on a regular disk. My use case can be achieve using the example PowerShell script l...
Guest over 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No Status

When archive corruption is noted, automatically force a shift to a new archive

As a PI system user and administrator, I am interested in minimizing data loss due to a corrupted Archive. Please include an automated fix when corruption is noted. The PI server could force a shift to a new archive and re-processes the corrupted ...
Guest over 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No Status