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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Allow the SDK connection priority for the RTQP Engine to be configurable

The RTQP Engine is currently only able to connect to the Primary Data Archive to retrieve data, regardless of the SDK Priority settings. The “PreferPrimary” connection priority is hardcoded into the RTQP engine and cannot be modified. For users wh...
Derek Wong over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI System Access (PSA) / PI SQL Client 2 No status

Expose UOM Groups in PI Web API

As a programmer I want the PI Web API to expose an endpoint for reading UOM Groups and UOM Group mappings. This would allow javascript based web applications to read the UOM Groups and mappings in order to use the mappings in subsequent data strea...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI System Access (PSA) / PI Web API 1 No status

Have pre-made PI Identities with minimum permissions by default

It currently takes more effort to follow AVEVA's recommendation of setting minimum permissions for all PI service accounts than it is to use fewer service accounts with more permissions. To help steer PI administrators in the right direction, plea...
Kenneth Barber over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Security 2 No status

Do not require permission to PIPOINT if the permission is already covered by Point Security or Data Security

https://docs.osisoft.com/bundle/pi-server/page/permissions-required-for-tasks.html According to the documentation linked above, when permission to Point Security or Data Security is required, the same permission to PIPOINT is also required. This i...
Kenneth Barber over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Security 2 No status

trend log objects (BACnet object type 20) available from the connector

BACnet trendlog object present the opportunity to buffer at the edge where the data is collected and to gracefully recover from comms outages if data collection has been impacted. I would suspect the trendlog object could be handled similarly to ...
Guest over 2 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for BACnet 0 No status

Wonderware Historian Connector should store some metadata in PI tag attributes

The Description, Maximum EU, Minimum EU, Engineering Units, etc. that are stored in the Wonderware historian should be stored in the PI tags' attributes as well as the Wonderware AF structure.
Guest over 2 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for Wonderware Historian 1 No status

PI Connector for Wonderware Historian should be configurable to use 'FULL' mode query

The connectors should have a standard behavior. We believe the Wonderware connector should be collecting data in the same way as the Cygnet connector by getting all the data stored in the source historian irrespective of the value change. Currentl...
Guest over 2 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for Wonderware Historian 0 No status

Improve the structure of the history recovery after connector restarts to ensure that initial period of history recovery is complete

The 30-day history recovery by the connector after restarts should get activated only after the initial history recovery is confirmed to have completed successfully.
Guest over 2 years ago in PI Connectors / PI System Connector 0 No status

Adjust GE e-terraHabitat Connector to support e-terraPipeline systems

The Pi Connector for GE e-terraHabitat systems was apparently only written to support GE's Electrical SCADA systems (EMS/DMS) that are based on e-terraHabitat. They also have Oil & Gas Pipeline SCADA systems, also based on e-terraHabitat, know...
KPRoth over 2 years ago in PI Connectors / Other specific PI Connector 0 No status

Remove AF Requirement for PI Connector for OPC UA

Remove the AF requirement for PI Connector for OPC UA. Users who may only be looking to send data from PI Connector for OPC UA to Data Archive are currently forced to configure connections/security for AF as well during initial setup.
Roger Ward over 2 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for OPC UA 0 No status