AVEVA™ PI System™ Feedback Portal

Welcome to our 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.


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Add support for nested SELECT statements in PI SQL (RTQP)

The current version of PI DAS (RTQP Engine) does not support nested SELECT statements. This is a rather dire oversight, given that the older PI OLEDB Enterprise query engine does support nested SELECT statements. A very useful application of nes...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI System Access (PSA) / PI SQL Client 1 No status

Expose most of PI-SMT functionalities to AF-SDK

I have to admit that I am surprised and disappointed not seeing any real good administration methods in the AF-SDK. Of course there is Powershell but what I would really want is a nice way of getting all the information I see in SMT and more withi...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI System Access (PSA) / PI AF SDK 0 No status

PI Web API should allow the user to configure personally identifiable information (PII) to be shown in logs

PI Web API 2019 now hides personally identifiable information (PII) in log files. As a PI Web API Administrator, I would like to be able to configure PI Web API to show personally identifiable information in log files, so that it is easier for me ...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI System Access (PSA) / PI Web API 0 No status

Allow access of PI Server/AF Server time zone via PI Web API

Posted on behalf of customer: We are currently using the PI Web API 2021 SP1, version 1.15.0.162. We're using it to develop a proprietary C++ software. One of our customers has PI Servers all over the world and wants to see the time stamps in the...
Ryan Biggins over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI System Access (PSA) / PI Web API 1 No status

Selectively install 32-bit versus 64-bit versions of PI programs

Currently, install kits such as those of PI DataLink, PI AF Client, PI API, PI SDK, PI OLEDB Provider, PI OLEDB Enterprise, and PI SQL Client always install both the 32-bit and 64-bit versions. Most of the time, one of these versions is unused and...
Kenneth Barber over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Installation 3 No status

Ability to specify default AF database during installation of PI AF Client

Currently, the PI AF Client installation allows the user to select a default PI Data Archive and default AF server but not a default AF database. It would be nice, especially for silent installations, to be able to specify the default AF database ...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Installation 0 No status

In the PI Server install kit, label deprecated components as such and state the replacement

The PI Server install kit includes many deprecated components, namely: PI Totalizer Subsystem PI Alarm Subsystem PI Performance Equation Scheduler PI Batch Subsystem PI Module Database Builder AF Collective Manager Also, the PI AF Link Subsystem i...
Kenneth Barber over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Installation 0 No status

Create 2 new client install kits: PI System Client & PI For Excel

Administrators and regular users of PI are mainly concerned with these PI client programs: PI System Management Tools PI System Explorer PI Builder PI DataLink However, the install kits are not beginner-friendly: Many users think that PI DataLink ...
Kenneth Barber over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Installation 4 No status

Support VHS point History recovery for PI Connector for Cygnet

VHS points in Cygnet contain historical data. On startup, disconnection and at will, the connector should should attempt to recover history.
Guest over 2 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for CygNet 0 No status

Suppress the creation of "Status Flag" PI Points

The end-user would like to suppress the creation of the "Status Flag" PI Points, as they wish to keep their point count to a minimum due to the license-enforced point limit.
Guest over 2 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for BACnet 0 No status