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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.

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Support User Information in Connection History Tool

(pidiag -connectionhistory) Support the collection and retrieval of PI / Windows user information by the connection history database.   Currently, the connection history database only stores IP addresses which can be misleading when m...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 3 No status

Force Shift warning is misleading

When force shifting an archive, the following message is displayed: "Warning: This shift will clear data from the target archive. Are you sure you want to force an archive shift on to a new archive?" When Auto Archive Creation is enabled (having...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No status

Make it easier to get a list of buffered or unbuffered points on the PI Data Archive

For PI System Administrators, it would be nice to be able to easily get a list of all buffered or unbuffered points on the PI Data Archive. Currently, a list of buffered points is possible to retrieve using 'piartool -bfs -ptlist', but a comprehe...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No status

View PI Adapter log files via REST calls

We would like to be able to see the adapter log files via REST calls. Going to the machine itself to view is problematic because of remoting into the router and then going into the container to view. I think in a lot of containerized situations a ...
Allison Muraski over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / General 3 Tell us more

PI Adapter for OPC UA should preiodically retry to subscribe to each node for which subscription failed at startup

Currently the PI Adapter for OPC UA tries to subscribe to all the OPC UA nodes configured in the Data Selection configuration at startup. However, when as issue occurs during the subscription to an OPC UA node, that node will not be included in da...
Bernard Lafrance almost 2 years ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / AVEVA Adapter for OPC UA 1 No status

Ua Server force failover / improve failover logic

Let me preface this by saying that I know it is a workaround for a non-compliance with the OPC UA specifications. The point is that the situation described below is unfortunately all too common and the workaround is needed. It often happens that t...
sahilp over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / AVEVA Adapter for OPC UA 1 No status

Incremental backups are not possible because of frequent backfilling

Occasional back filling of data would cause 5 TB of archives to be backed up with incremental backups. This is frustrating because only a few KB of data is changed in each archive. Can OSIsoft provide a way to backup only the data that has changed...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 3 No status

PI Adapter for OPC UA data conversion

As a PI System Administrator, I would like to be able to apply conversion factors to the data that is being gathered from our OPC UA server. This would allow us to get data in the format/units we'd like, without requiring extra tags and/or calcula...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / AVEVA Adapter for OPC UA 2 No status

PI Adapter for Structured Data Files support for files with format: tag,timestamp,value

input file format is (where identifier is the tag/stream name): identifier, timestamp,value identifier, timestamp,value ...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / AVEVA Adapter for Structured Data Files / General 1 Tell us more

Adapter for OPC UA to support Global Discovery Server

Currently, to manage the OPC UA Server/Adapter certificate, we have to manually move the certificate or get the certificate trusted beforehand. This is expected for self signed Application certificate for both the Server and the Client (Adapter). ...
Ee Sheing Lee 6 months ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / AVEVA Adapter for OPC UA 2 Tell us more