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.

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Ability to manage non-impersonated linked tables without PI AF Server Admin privilegies

PI AF Admin would like grant permissions for users that are not level server admins to create and edit non-impersonated linked tables. Currently this only allowed for AF server admins or using impersonated linked tables. User guide: https://liv...
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Security 3 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 about 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 about 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 about 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 made ...
Guest about 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 about 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 about 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 about 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 about 2 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for OPC UA 0 No status

Allow data sources and servers to be renamed

Currently, if you want to rename a data source, PI Data server, or PI Asset server, you must delete the one with the old name and create a new one with the new name, and redo all of the configuration. This is especially a pain for data sources, si...
Kenneth Barber about 2 years ago in PI Connectors / General 0 No status