AVEVA™ PI System™ Feedback Portal

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Interface should reload performance counters after failover and keep track of them.

The interface should be designed to reload counters both at startup and when becoming the active interface after a failover. The interface should realize the counter is not available and periodically attempt to reload (ideally with a message to th...
Nicolas Capera about 1 year ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface for OPC DA 0 No status

WIS support for TCP Response interface

If trusts are disabled in Data Archive, the TCP Response Interface will generate a logon error every time it performs a TCP request (https://customers.osisoft.com/s/knowledgearticle?knowledgeArticleUrl=000032778). The interface should be updated, ...
mose 9 months ago in PI Interfaces / Other Interfaces 0 Evaluating

Enable logging of 5.x batch interface messages to the local PI message log again

Message logs for 5.X Batch interfaces and Connectors are written to Windows Event Viewer instead of PI Message Logs as in previous versions. The Windows Event Log is extremely slow compared to viewing PI message logs, the filtering is worse, the m...
Guest about 1 year ago in PI Interfaces / Batch Interfaces 2 Declined

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 about 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface for RDBMS 0 No status

Upgrade the PI Interface Configuration Utility to use only the Microsoft Visual C++ 2015-2022 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 Microsoft Visual C++ 2015-20...
Kenneth Barber about 2 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 about 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI to PI Interface 2 No status

Support dynamic OPC addresses

My OPC server's items have the OPC server node name included in the itemID, for example: serverA.AB_1234.PV. I have redundant OPC servers and redundant interfaces (in failover) and would like the tags to refer to the correct OPC address including ...
Guest about 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface for OPC DA 0 No status

Add a watchdog counter to API shared memory

Add a watchdog counter or something similar into the shared memory header. If the counter fails to update, initiate UFO. If PIBufSS crashes, data loss can occur.  implement something that allows UniInt to know that the Buffer Subsystem is n...
Clint Ramsey about 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / General 1 No status

SNMP Interface to support using multiple types of encryption such as DES, 3DES, and AES-128 bit, AES-192 bit, and AES-256 bit.

SNMP Interface should support using multiple types of encryption such as DES, 3DES, and AES-128 bit, AES-192 bit, and AES-256 bit.
Guest about 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / General 0 No status

Assure changes made to any configuration of an interface are audit trailed

We noticed that changes to the configuration of newer interfaces / connectors like - PI EMDVBCS interface 4.0 - PI inbatch interface - PI Connector Wonderware Historian are no longer recorded in the PI Audit trail. (see also TechSupport Case # 9...
Carl Van Laer about 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / General 0 No status