AVEVA™ PI System™ Feedback Portal

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PI Interfaces

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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 over 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 over 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 over 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 over 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface for OPC DA 0 No status

Add a watchdog counter to API shared memory

Add a watchdog counter or something similar into the shared memory header. If the counter fails to update, initiate UFO. If PIBufSS crashes, data loss can occur.  implement something that allows UniInt to know that the Buffer Subsystem is n...
Clint Ramsey over 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / General 1 No status

SNMP Interface to support using multiple types of encryption such as DES, 3DES, and AES-128 bit, AES-192 bit, and AES-256 bit.

SNMP Interface should support using multiple types of encryption such as DES, 3DES, and AES-128 bit, AES-192 bit, and AES-256 bit.
Guest over 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / General 0 No status

Assure changes made to any configuration of an interface are audit trailed

We noticed that changes to the configuration of newer interfaces / connectors like - PI EMDVBCS interface 4.0 - PI inbatch interface - PI Connector Wonderware Historian are no longer recorded in the PI Audit trail. (see also TechSupport Case # 9...
Carl Van Laer over 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / General 0 No status

Device Status UniInt health tag should update during runtime without needing a status update

Currently, the device status is updated on startup, on change, on shutdown, and on each performance summary interval. However, for a device status tag created while the interface is running in a good state, the device status tag will remain at 'P...
Guest over 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / General 0 No status

Avoid reloading tags after edits of non-key PI Point attributes

Currently, UniInt-based interfaces will reload a tag if edits are detected on any of the PI Point attributes. This is not ideal as edits to non-key attributes (such as EngUnits) will still cause a tag to be reloaded, potentially leading to data so...
Guest over 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / General 0 No status

Delete mode in Wonderware InBatch interface

When run in delete mode for WWInBatch interface, it uses the data source as the system of record--any open batch in SQL will be deleted. However, as abandoned or done  batches are open in WonderWare but closed in PI, the interface may delete ...
Willy Seah Wei Liat over 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / Batch Interfaces 0 Declined