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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.

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 Data Archive Installation Wizard should provide an option to restore from a backup or copy current configuration from another PI Server

As we enter 2020, the process of moving/restoring the PI Data Archive hasn't changed since its inception. Typical procedure to move a PI Data Archive on a new server is to install same version of software and then perform backup/restore of the old...
Kapil Rakh over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 1 No status

Compress archives that are backed up using "Copy"

Currently, when a "copy" backup occurs, the archives are copied as-is. Archive files take up a lot of space, but they also compress very well (if you deleted a bunch of tags without creating as many new ones), and since archive backups are rarely ...
Kenneth Barber over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No status

Improve PI Server Installation kit: disk space requirements should include the minimal PI Backup

When calculating the disk space requirements on a recent upgrade the drive was expected to have only 138 MB installed. But the install failed due to not enough disk space on the drive because the minimal backup needed a certain amount of disk spac...
Nathan Skitt over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 1 No status

PI AF Link & PIBatch - Ability to uninstall it

PI AF Link is not included in PI 2018 but it would be good to be able to remove the link during an upgrade. (not possible today https://customers.osisoft.com/s/knowledgearticle?knowledgeArticleUrl=000027668). Same for PIBatch which cannot be unins...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 1 No status

AI Detection for Stale Points

As a PI System administrator, it would be helpful if the PI Server had an artificial intelligence or machine learning system which could recognize the normal updating patterns of a PI Point and report when a tag was not receiving updates properly ...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No status

PI to CONNECT Installation Footprint

As a PI System Administrator, I would like a way to deploy PI to CONNECT in a secure and manageable way so that it is easy to maintain, and I can trust it is secure. Currently, AVEVA recommends PI to CONNECT be installed on a separate computer fro...
Guest over 3 years ago in PI to CONNECT 0 No status

Sync PI to CONNECT Value Property UoMs with the source tag's EngUnits

By placing the engineering units from the data archive into a stream metadata, it precludes their usage within CONNECT's UoM functionality (such as data view column labels for example). The EngUnits won't be trivial to sync into CONNECT, but an at...
Guest over 3 years ago in PI to CONNECT 1 No status

Allow administrators to change which CONNECT tenant/Namespace of the agent

As an administrator, the only mechanism to change the tenant or namespace of the installed agent is to completely uninstall and reinstall the agent. You can remove the agent from the Data Services Agent screen, but the Agent Configuration doesn't ...
Sam Pride 11 months ago in PI to CONNECT / General 0 No status

accept relative time period as historical start time for transfer settings

Business requirement to re-transfer dataset due either to network or server related issue(s).
Guest almost 3 years ago in PI to CONNECT / General 1 No status

Better align AVEVA CONNECT data services Asset Type to AF template

Right now, PI to CONNECT agent creates empty asset types for the assets it creates.Additionally, if you connect multiple agents which have the same templates (or the same template names), these will all be created as empty asset types.If the Asset...
Guest almost 3 years ago in PI to CONNECT / General 2 No status