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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    EMDVB Data Type Enhancement

    Please include option in the DeltaV EMDVB interface that can handle the timestamp format used with .evt files. Currently, if in the interface a trigger is used with a property, the timestamp format in the .evt file is retained, which cannot be sto...
    Gary Moore over 1 year ago in PI Interfaces / Batch Interfaces 0 No status

    Restrict Batch interface from creating Event Frames using illegal characters

    The PI Interface for Rockwell FactoryTalk Batch in processing evt files used a hexadecimal character of 1f in the generation of an event frame. This results in an error when attempting to export the event frame in an xml output.
    Nathan Skitt over 1 year ago in PI Interfaces / Batch Interfaces 3 No status

    File name extensions "_OK" and "BAD" / Deletion of correctly read lines

    We operate a UFL interface that evaluates CSV files with additional analysis data and reads data for existing PI tags, storing the values (including timestamps) in the PI server archives. Our UFL interface is not permitted to create PI tags. I hav...
    Werner Geller 9 months ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface for UFL 0 No status

    PI UFL ._OK file rename should be after parsing to avoid data loss during shutdowns

    My understanding of UFL (confirmed by tech support) is that it will rename files to ._OK extension before loading lines into memory. This means that if the service is stopped (such as during an update) and it has not completely read into memory an...
    Davin Ross over 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface for UFL 0 No status

    Add more info in NOC cases email subject

    It would be better if NOC email cases had the case number as well as the status (Resolved, close or similar) on the email subject
    asanzacedo almost 4 years ago in Customer Portal & PI Square / General 3 Planned

    Make it easy to find updated security patches to OSISoft Products

    As a PI Administrator for a power company I am asked twice a month to verify that none of the products I support have had a security patch released.  Any such products in a NERC zone need to be patched within the next 12 days. It used to be ...
    DavidMFairchild almost 4 years ago in Customer Portal & PI Square / General 1 No status

    Possibility to extract cases in csv or Excel-compatible format

    For one entity to manage and follow case creation by its administrators, it could be very useful to add the capability of extracting under .csv or other Excel-compatible format the Case database at anytime (by adding a button "Extract all Cases" f...
    Guest almost 4 years ago in Customer Portal & PI Square / General 0 No status

    Alert user when the interface discards values

    Example:  When using a distribution tag, the number of tags returned and number of values sent to PI can be mismatched, due to missing aliases or data that does not need to be collected. It would be helpful to identify what values are droppe...
    Guest almost 4 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface for RDBMS 0 No status

    Upgrade the PI Interface Configuration Utility to use only the latest Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable

    The PI Interface Configuration Utility install kit currently includes both the 2012 and the 2019 Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributables. Please upgrade the PI Interface Configuration Utility so that it requires only the latest Microsoft Visual C++ ...
    Kenneth Barber almost 4 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface Configuration Utility (PI ICU) 2 No status

    PItoPI should switch from COLD to WARM failover instead of exiting

    As of version 3.8.1 COLD failover is no longer supported by the PI to PI Interface (https://techsupport.osisoft.com/Troubleshooting/Enhancements/19255OSI8). However, older versions supported COLD failover. In the case of upgrading the interfaces, ...
    Guest almost 4 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI to PI Interface 2 No status