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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PI Interfaces

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PI Buffer Subsystem doesn't use the user who is logged in

PI Buffer Subsystem must have a option to set up the user account is logged instead of using Windows Domain or Local account that is running the windows service. This is a huge security issue when using Buffer on client computer to send manual dat...
Guest over 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / Other Interfaces 0 No status

GE HabConnect interface support for both IGNORExTH and IGNOREFLDMSEC

PI ICU rejects options IGNORE5TH and IGNOREFLDMSEC at the same time. When modeling teams change MEAS fields often, IGNORE5TH is extremely useful to keep data history contiguous. When using field time that is stamped by the EMS, milliseconds are no...
Guest over 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / Other Interfaces 0 No status

Streamlined management of PI Interface for SNMP .pwd file

When using the interface to gather data for hundreds of SNMP devices, managing the .pwd file becomes very burdensome due to an inability to format the file. Comments are helpful in sorting devices, but they are removed upon encryption. It would be...
Guest over 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / Other Interfaces 1 No status

Create a migration path for AMI Interfaces when PI Server is moved to a new machine/hostname

Currently, AMI Interfaces require a rebuild of the AMI cache files when the PI Server is migrated to a new machine/hostname (Although to clarify if the hostname does not change during the PI Server migration the cache does not need to be rebuilt)....
Guest over 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / Other Interfaces 0 No status

PI Point Sync for Siemens Spectrum

Have the functionality to change the Point Type from the PSSS, because it cannot edit Point Type for existing PI Points.
Guest over 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / Other Interfaces 0 No status

Upgrade Cybectec PI Interface to work with Windows Server 2016/2019

We currently use the Cybectec interface to relay information into our PI system. It is our understanding that the latest certified OS is Windows Server 2012 R2. We are currently going through a upgrade of our PI system and our standard OS for depl...
Guest over 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / Other Interfaces 0 No status

PI Interface for CA ISO ADS - Allow retrieval of individual items under the Instruction Details xml field

PI Interface for CA ISO ADS can extract data from XML fields. Under the Instruction Detail field, there are multiple MW, serviceType, and segNo fields. Presently, retrieving those values in a PI tag (for example, instrument tag "MW,ResID") returns...
Guest over 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / Other Interfaces 0 No status

Allow some IF checking for TagPath to see if it exists or has a value before putting it on an Event Frame Attribute.

It would be useful to be able to add tags to Event Frame Attributes that only exist or have a value. This came up with a request to merge Batch and A&E so that Alarm Tags made by the A&E interface can be added to Event Frames made by the B...
Tim Proeber over 1 year ago in PI Interfaces / Batch Interfaces 1 Declined

EFGEN - Remove dependency for existing tags for interface to start up.

We recently ran into an issue where a few PI tags were retired, but the corresponding EFGEN interface configuration that used the tags were not retired. On the next reboot, the EFGEN interface would not start back up, since the tags could not be f...
Guest over 1 year ago in PI Interfaces / Other Interfaces 1 Declined

Stay with RAD View

RAD view is easier to use for troubleshooting.
Guest over 1 year ago in PI Interfaces / General 0 No status