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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AVEVA™ PI Server

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Revise Perfmon counter for PIBufss - Point Count

We are trying to use this perfmon counter as a diagnostic aid to catch issues with a third party interface, but it could be used with PI interfaces. We are checking to see if the point configuration for their interface matches across the four poss...
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / General 0 No status

Enable suppression of certain error messages in HABConnect interface

Related to this article: https://customers.osisoft.com/s/knowledgearticle?knowledgeArticleUrl=000031389 I may have keys that are all spaces, and this may result in constant logging of the following error upon every database refresh (determined by...
Paul Kim about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / General 0 No status

General Feedback

Hello, I don't see any roadmap from OSIsoft/AVEVA for the currently supported products. Looks like OSIsoft decided collect SRP for the existing OSIsoft software products and promote only the AVEVA products. Thanks, Subburaman Sankaran
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / General 0 No status

Allow data update for future PI Points in PI OPC DA Server

When a future pi point is published in the OPC DA server current value matches PI DA current value but it does not update new events on the PI DA You need to create another group in an OPC client or close the connection and reconnect to see new va...
asanzacedo about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / General 0 No status

Auto-balance archive files

The disadvantage of fixed archives is that they cannot grow or shrink. The disadvantage of dynamic archives is that they can potentially grow too much. Merging of small archives and splitting of large archives must be done manually. To solve this...
Kenneth Barber about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 Declined

Ability to convert historical tags to future data tags

As a production supervisor, I would like to be able to convert historical data tags to future data tags so that I can more efficiently transition my production target tags from being something that I have to update every day, to something that I c...
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 Declined

Make a point class similar to "base", but without zero, span, or typical value

Most of the time, zero, span, and typical value are unused, cause confusion, and/or lead to easy but costly mistakes. Typical value is probably the most useless PI Point attribute. It doesn't affect the PI system. It is just there for the user's ...
Kenneth Barber about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 Declined

Write a description for the PI Data Archive services

When you open the Services program (services.msc), none of the PI Data Archive services have a description. Please provide descriptions for these. The specific services are: PI Archive Subsystem PI Backup Subsystem PI Base Subsystem PI Buffer Subs...
Kenneth Barber about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 Declined

Provide the user ability to select Event Frame templates during the Batch to Event Frames Migration

During the Batch to Event Frames Migration, all migrated Event Frames are created with 'Migrated' templates (i.e. PIBatchMigrated, PIUnitBatchMigrated, etc.). I would like the ability to pick and choose what templates migrated Event Frames are cre...
Ellery Murdock about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No status

Optimize the storage and retrieval of digital tags

Given that the archive file format is proprietary, this suggestion is me shooting in the dark. Disk compression compresses archive files very well, and my guess is that most of this compression occurs on the digital tags, since the number of poss...
Kenneth Barber about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 7 No status