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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.


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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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 almost 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 2 Declined

Apply correct localhost.tz file during PI Data Archive installation

To account for the different historical implementations of Daylight Saving Time in different regions, a localhost.tz file is added to the %piserver%\dat directory after installation. As an installer of PI Data Archive, I would like the localhost.t...
Guest almost 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 Declined

Store multiple events at the same timestamp

I have a particular application for storing partial discharge events into the PI Server.  Many of the events are at the same timestamp, which result in multiple events at the same time.
Guest almost 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 1 Declined

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 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 Declined

Publish metrics

Create standing metrics for the PI System, especially the PI Data Archive
Guest almost 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 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 almost 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 1 Declined

Write a description for the PI Data Archive services

When you open the Services program (services.msc), none of the PI Data Archive services have a description. Please provide descriptions for these. The specific services are: PI Archive Subsystem PI Backup Subsystem PI Base Subsystem PI Buffer Subs...
Kenneth Barber almost 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 Declined

Add Performance counter that displays the %License Match for better tracking

Add Performance counter that displays the %License Match for better system evaluation.
Guest almost 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 1 Declined

Option to turn off interpolation for a PI Point

Currently, PI will always interpolate to determine a value for a PI Point between archived events. The Step attribute determines the interpolation method. "On" means "step interpolation" and "off" means "linear interpolation". This works well for ...
Kenneth Barber almost 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 3 Declined

Windows 10 Support for PI Server and AF in production

Supporting Windows 10 in production is a frequent request for us even if we have to limit the tag count to 5K as an example. There are lots of applications that can benefit fro a small historian. Supporting Windows 10 for testing purposes only is ...
Guest almost 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 Declined