AVEVA™ PI System™ Feedback Portal

Welcome to our new 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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PI Connectors

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PI System connector creates additional data on start up

When PI System connector is stopped and started (as a service or in UI), duplicate event is received and archived by the target PI Data Archive. The write mode for the PI Connector Relay is append, in this case history recovery will include/send t...
Guest almost 2 years ago in PI Connectors / PI System Connector 0 Declined

Unit testing for Microsoft Edge browser for PI Connectors administration

The tested browser from AVEVA is Google Chrome. However, some organizations typically use an official browser or a proffered browser like Microsoft Edge. For such scenarios it will be a good idea if Aveva does the end to end unit testing for the o...
Aniruddha Kulkarni 11 months ago in PI Connectors / PI System Connector 0 No Status

Mass create data source list for PI Connector

For the PI Connector for EtherNet IP you can have up to 100 data sources. Typing in all of them is tedious. It would be nice if we could copy/paste information from Excel OR have a structured import/export file to the data source list.
Dan.Louchbaum almost 2 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for Ethernet/IP 1 No Status

PI Connector for Ethernet IP should retrieve tagnames from the PLC array

The AF Hierarchy that is created by the connector does not take into consideration any of the tagnames within the PLC array, it just creates attributes for them as slot.n where “n” is a number corresponding to the array position. Not only is this ...
Allison Muraski almost 2 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for Ethernet/IP 0 No Status

Improve the structure of the history recovery after connector restarts to ensure that initial period of history recovery is complete

The 30-day history recovery by the connector after restarts should get activated only after the initial history recovery is confirmed to have completed successfully.
Guest almost 2 years ago in PI Connectors / PI System Connector 0 No Status

Allow PI System connector to actively rectify streams if point type changes are made during runtime

Point changes on the source currently necessitate a restart of PI System Connector to rectify the streams. Allow the tau framework to handle these changes at runtime without restarting the connector. Currently, if the point type changes are mad...
Guest almost 2 years ago in PI Connectors / PI System Connector 0 No Status

Collect units of measure and description from Siemens Simatic PCS 7

Support collecting units and description from the Siemens Simatic PCS 7 system and writing them to the AF attribute and the PI Point attributes.
Guest almost 2 years ago in PI Connectors / Other specific PI Connector 1 Declined

Allow rename of tags for IEC-60870-104 connector

The connector should allow sending the data to a custom tag name. The combination of ASDU and IOA are not useful to end users without the signal list. There should also be an option to automatically combine the quality flags with the value e.g. i...
sahilp almost 2 years ago in PI Connectors / Other specific PI Connector 0 No Status

PI Connector for OPC UA Failed to populate Discovered Endpoints list

When pressing the Discover Available Endpoints button under the following condition , it failed to populate the Discovered Endpoints list because of 501 Error: a. NAT configured between PI Connector for OPC UA and OPC UA Server networks b. OPC UA...
Guest almost 2 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for OPC UA 1 No Status

Make data source redundancy config more flexible

Some SCADA vendors are still only natively implementing OPC Classic so if one wants to use OPC UA, then a wrapper is needed. If that SCADA is configured in a redundant pair, it is not always true that the wrapper is aware of that or not aware of h...
sahilp almost 2 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for OPC UA 0 No Status