AVEVA™ PI System™ Feedback Portal

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PI Interfaces

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Capture data from ABB 800xA that doesn't follow ISA88

ABB 800xA offers a batch capture mode that is more flexible than ISA88 since it doesn't match all unit procedures to units, but rather acquires them at the beginning of the batch. Currently the interface is designed to only retrieve batches that f...
Alan Izar about 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / Batch Interfaces 3 Declined

Advise mode for the PI interface for OPC HDA

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Guest about 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / Other Interfaces 0 No status

DeltaV Smart Connector configurability

Smart Connector foo DeltaV should let user configure some default attributes for tags created: - User should be able to define what the default point security should be - User should be able to decide if tags should be created as Poll or Advise
Guest about 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / Other Interfaces 0 No status

Interface should reload performance counters after failover and keep track of them.

The interface should be designed to reload counters both at startup and when becoming the active interface after a failover. The interface should realize the counter is not available and periodically attempt to reload (ideally with a message to th...
Nicolas Capera about 1 year ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface for OPC DA 0 No status

WIS support for TCP Response interface

If trusts are disabled in Data Archive, the TCP Response Interface will generate a logon error every time it performs a TCP request (https://customers.osisoft.com/s/knowledgearticle?knowledgeArticleUrl=000032778). The interface should be updated, ...
mose 10 months ago in PI Interfaces / Other Interfaces 0 Evaluating

Enable logging of 5.x batch interface messages to the local PI message log again

Message logs for 5.X Batch interfaces and Connectors are written to Windows Event Viewer instead of PI Message Logs as in previous versions. The Windows Event Log is extremely slow compared to viewing PI message logs, the filtering is worse, the m...
Guest over 1 year ago in PI Interfaces / Batch Interfaces 2 Declined

Alert user when the interface discards values

Example:  When using a distribution tag, the number of tags returned and number of values sent to PI can be mismatched, due to missing aliases or data that does not need to be collected. It would be helpful to identify what values are droppe...
Guest about 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface for RDBMS 0 No status

Upgrade the PI Interface Configuration Utility to use only the Microsoft Visual C++ 2015-2022 Redistributable

The PI Interface Configuration Utility install kit currently includes both the 2012 and the 2019 Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributables. Please upgrade the PI Interface Configuration Utility so that it requires only the Microsoft Visual C++ 2015-20...
Kenneth Barber about 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface Configuration Utility (PI ICU) 2 No status

PItoPI should switch from COLD to WARM failover instead of exiting

As of version 3.8.1 COLD failover is no longer supported by the PI to PI Interface (https://techsupport.osisoft.com/Troubleshooting/Enhancements/19255OSI8). However, older versions supported COLD failover. In the case of upgrading the interfaces, ...
Guest about 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI to PI Interface 2 No status

Support dynamic OPC addresses

My OPC server's items have the OPC server node name included in the itemID, for example: serverA.AB_1234.PV. I have redundant OPC servers and redundant interfaces (in failover) and would like the tags to refer to the correct OPC address including ...
Guest about 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface for OPC DA 0 No status