AVEVA™ PI System™ Feedback Portal

Welcome to our feedback site!


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.


This page is for feedback specifically for AVEVA PI System. For links to our other feedback portals, please see the tab RESOURCES below.

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    Support named ranges to avoid issue KB01369

    Excel places named ranges in formulas when a cell has a named range (instead of cell references). Excel formulas become more readable this way. Datalink should support defined named ranges too. Editing a Datalink array formula directly in Excel a...
    Guest about 4 years ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Functions 12 No status

    Enable Auto Discovery for PI Adapter for MQTT SparkplugB to always listen for Birth and Death messages

    When utilizing the SparkplugB protocol for MQTT, it would be beneficial for the adapter to be always listening for birth and death messages from specific Edge of Network nodes. This way, the device can send a birth message to have itself added t...
    Guest about 4 years ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / AVEVA Adapter for MQTT 1 Tell us more

    PI Adapter for EtherNet/IP

    Develop a PI adapter to talk directly to Rockwell PLCs using EtherNet/IP without requiring an OPC UA server.
    Steve Boyko about 4 years ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / New Connectivity 1 No status

    OMF: Time Range / Events / Spans Support

    Support the concept of time ranges / events EFs / spans as a pre-defined type in the OSIsoft Message Format (OMF) spec.
    Guest about 4 years ago in Developer Resources / Open Message Format (OMF) 7 Tell us more

    A feature that enables generative AI to create PI Analytics calculation formulas based on user prompts.

    This idea came from one of my customers. Although he is not very familiar with PI’s function-based calculation capabilities, he is eager to make use of PI Analytics. He mentioned that it would be great if there were a feature where users could inp...
    Guest 7 months ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 0 No status

    Redundancy for PI Connector Relay

    Operating in a validated pharmaceutical industry, when making use of a comprehensive data/asset centralizing approach, we require the PI Connector Relay to be redundant or highly available. We are currently in the obligation to deploy the PI Conne...
    Christian Leroux almost 4 years ago in PI Connectors / Other specific PI Connector 0 No status

    Install and configure more than one PI System Connector instance per server

    At local industrial sites, we deploy use cases different in nature and end user consumption in separated AF DBs, like OEE, PSM, Autoclave, utilities, etc. We need to centralize these individually into our central PI System. We need to segregate th...
    Christian Leroux almost 4 years ago in PI Connectors / PI System Connector 0 No status

    Store an OPC Server's "VT_EMPTY" Data Type as a "Bad" in PI Data Archive

    When there is a problem within an OPC Server, some Items receives "VT_EMPTY" data type values. PI OPC DA Interface ignores this information, and in PI Data Archive present to users and applications the last valid value - that might be incorrect.
    jmalmeida over 1 year ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface for OPC DA 0 No status

    Add a parameter to disable NTLM authentication

    On the "Health endpoints parameters" page of the documentation of any AVEVA Adapter, it states that Negotiate (i.e. try Kerberos first and fall back to NTLM if that fails) will be used if a username/password pair and a clientId/clientSecret pair a...
    Kenneth Barber 4 months ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / General 0 No status

    Convert PI DataLink from a COM add-in to an Office Add-in

    This change will bring a few benefits: PI DataLink will become more secure. COM add-ins use ActiveX, and ActiveX is both deprecated and not secure. PI DataLink will become cross-platform. AVEVA will be able to publish PI DataLink to the Micr...
    Kenneth Barber 4 months ago in AVEVA™ PI DataLink™ / Programming 0 No status