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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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Allow adding naming conventions

Administrating large systems require providing naming standards (for example when implementing international standards like ISA95) for various system elements: PI Point, AF DBs, Elements, Templates and so on. AVEVA software could support naming co...
Czuprynski 5 months ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 0 No status

Dedicate/reserve threads for PI server management.

In the event of all the threads being consumed on a PI server a PI admin is unable to manage a PI server remotely. They must remote into the server and manage it from there. However, even from the server there are times where simple tasks like ope...
GaryYegiazaryan 9 months ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No status

Update a Subset of Event Frames' Security Without Changing "Modified Date"

Currently, there is not a way to update a subset of Event Frames' security in bulk, without changing the Event Frame's "Modified Date." For example, to add a new AF Identity with "read" permissions to a subset of Event Frames. Some customers use d...
Amber Athon 5 months ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Event Frames (EF) 0 No status

Add Kerberos Authentication for PI Asset Analytics

Currently, PI Asset Analytics utilizes NTLM authentication. My customer's MSFT Windows Ops team does not recommend using NTLM and by default have this deactivated. Request is to add support for Kerberos authentication for PI Asset Analytics as ...
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Security 0 No status

Add filtering and rolling log system to AFGetTrace

When troubleshooting intermittent issues, using AFGetTrace may be problematic as the trace can consume quite a bit of disk space, and setting a maximum file size will cause the trace to stop once the file is full. Without knowledge of when the iss...
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / General 0 No status

PI Archive ability to recover from drive disconnect

With everyone having virtual servers these days the host VM and SAN storage are on separate devices. When the storage device is unavailable or disconnected even briefly, the PI Archive process errors and gets DISABLED and can ONLY be restarted by ...
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 1 No status

PI Data Archive - import tags and merge historic archives together

As a customer who is moving their PI Data Archive historic data to a Centralized IT Facility, hosting another PI Data Archive, and that would like to import tags and historic data from another PI Data Archive, it would be great to have a functiona...
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No status

Override output timestamp when the output is also input for the analysis

If the output of your analysis is also used as an input for the analysis, the option offset the output timestamp relative to the trigger time is grayed out and you see the message "Cannot override output time stamp if any output is used as an inpu...
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 2 Tell us more

Give analyses format function the ability to format timestamp

Give analyses format function the ability to format timestamp similar to the one in the formula data reference. e.g. Format (datetime, "dd-MMM-yyyy HH: mm: ss");
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 1 No status

Flexible Analysis Scheduling Options

Users should have flexible Analysis scheduling options, similar to the Outlook recurring meeting options. See attached image for date-based recurrence patterns. Similar patterns for time would be helpful as well. As is, many PI Analysis users ar...
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 1 No status