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.

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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Connector provides Timestamps

The EtherNet/IP protocol does not specify timestamps when data is transmitted, the connector currently assigns the timestamps base on when the data is being processed. This leads to the following issue, if the network/computer/etc gets busy, we w...
Allison Muraski about 2 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for Ethernet/IP 0 No status

Log device information when the Connector receives errors from a device

Currently the Connector logs when it receives errors, but does not print information that can be used to determine which device is reporting the errors. We currently need to perform a wireshark trace to look at the individual packets to determine...
Guest about 2 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for BACnet 0 No status

Distribute-Broadcast-To-Network broadcast for Discovery Tool and Connector

When running the discovery tool from a subnet with no BBMD to query BACnet devices on a separate subnet, it seems like the auto discovery tool is seen as a ‘foreign device’, so the devices do not respond correctly. When analyzing a Wireshark trac...
Guest about 2 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for BACnet 0 No status

Wonderware Historian Connector Should store description in an AF attribute

Wonderware Historian Connector should store description in an AF attribute. It has the description in hand as it is written to the PI tag descriptor
Brian Deslatte about 2 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for Wonderware Historian 0 No status

The PI Connector for Wonderware Historian should have the option to enable/disable Compression when creating PI Tags.

As a PI System Admin, I would like to specify whether PI Tags created by the PI Connector for Wonderware Historian should have Compression enabled/disabled before being created by connector in order to reduce configuration time. Currently, tags ne...
Guest about 2 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for Wonderware Historian 0 No status

Support filtering by element template or attribute

Currently we can "filter" what is replicated by including a specific branch. But if using a composite model, say a site with all it's composite assets, and only want to replicate the "foo" assets from all sites, this option does not work. It is p...
Guest about 2 years ago in PI Connectors / PI System Connector 0 No status

Prioritize current data over historical backfill

Especially when requesting a large amount of historical data from PI System Connector, I would like the Connector to prioritize the current data from the data source while processing the historical data at a lower priority in the background.
Allison Muraski about 2 years ago in PI Connectors / PI System Connector 0 No status

PI Connector for HART-IP / Support SECURE data transfer

I work with an global oil and gas company who is interested in collecting data using the PI Connector for HART-IP but their IT requires them to utilize SECURE data transfer. The current connector only utilizes STANDARD data transfer. The lack ...
Guest about 2 years ago in PI Connectors / Other specific PI Connector 1 No status

The PI Connector for WITSML should be able to perform history recovery and real-time data collection at the same time

As a PI System Administrator, I would like to configure the data collection mode for the PI Connector for WITSML for each data source so that I can perform history recovery and real-time data collection without having to host multiple installation...
Guest about 2 years ago in PI Connectors / Other specific PI Connector 0 No status

PI Connector for GE eTerraHabitat

As a GE eTerraHabitat user, I would like to have a nice way to choose which tags I want to create on the PI System, without having to force them through the Approved Changes folder on the installation directory of the Connector. It would be better...
Guest about 2 years ago in PI Connectors / Other specific PI Connector 0 Declined