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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.


This page is for feedback specifically for AVEVA PI System. For links to our other feedback portals, please see the tab RESOURCES below.

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PI collective with shared archives

Allow the Primary Data Archive server read-write access to any shared archives. All Secondary data archive servers would have read-only access. This would fix case Case # 925881. We have tags with old timestamps, for example, environmental limits,...
Guest almost 4 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 Declined

Ability to view Instrument Tag and Point Source attributes within PI SMT > Data > Current Values pane

Feature request would be to include Instrument Tag and Point Source attributes to be view-able through the Data > Current Values pane of PI SMT.  This would allow administrators and users the ability to quickly diagnose and/or trace PI Poi...
Guest almost 4 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 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 almost 4 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 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 almost 4 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 1 No status

Use EDS to download OCS and PI data for use as a local data cache for Data Science in tools like R-Studio and Jupyter Notebook

As a data scientist, I would like to set up types, streams, and query data from OCS to use locally on my desktop in data science languages (e.g. R, Python) and tools I use (R-Studio, Jupyter Notebook) so that I can rapidly try different numerical ...
Guest about 4 years ago in Edge Data Store / Analytics & Calculations 1 Tell us more

EDS: security/authentication mechanism

Customer wants to deploy EDS at machine level to collect data from PLCs which are directly connected to the machine which would imply a proper security / authentication mechanism for EDS
Guest about 4 years ago in Edge Data Store / General 1 Tell us more

Simplify access to objects using REST API

Citizen data scientists, IT professionals and general OCS users need to use REST API methods in 3rd party applications - including Power BI - to access data or explore data using OCS Portal API Console. Typically objects not "custom created - whe...
Guest about 4 years ago in Developer Resources / CONNECT data services API 0 No status

OCS Community API: Access to Stream Type info for Properties & UOMs

The ability to expose the stream type property and UOMs for a stream shared through community in the API.
Guest about 4 years ago in Developer Resources / CONNECT data services API 0 No status

Specific debug log levels to troubleshoot specific issues

Similar to PI Interfaces (/DB for opcint), adapters should allow setting some additional debugging to troubleshoot specific issues, instead of only allowing a general LogLevel (Information, Trace, Warning, etc.) This would allow for more granular ...
Gabriel Verreault about 4 years ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / AVEVA Adapter for OPC UA 2 Already exists

Can we please have an Adapter for the good old OPC DA, please ?

We still have OPC DA all over and it will take time for users to move over to UA Architecture unless one uses a wrapper or something to expose DA as UA (not sure if such a wrapper is available but other way is available). It would be great to have...
Guest about 4 years ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / New Connectivity 2 Declined