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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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Retrieve data even it's not changed on OPC server

Currently Connector configured to rertieve event on change and not based on a scan class like interfaces.The Connector suscribes to the changes, and when a change comes in to the server, the data will be sent to PI connector. We need option to ret...
Guest over 3 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for OPC UA 13 Declined

Do not synchronize description from OPC UA server into PI Tag

There are situations when customer prefers to use “description” in PI Tag attribute that is independent from item “description” provided by OPC UA Server.   Currently, during each synchronization, the OPC UA Connector synchronizes descri...
Guest over 3 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for OPC UA 10 In development

ICU startup on high latency networks

On high latency networks, it can take ICU many minutes to start because every interface on the PI Data Archive is checked. Minimize startup time by caching a node's registered interfaces.
Guest over 3 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface Configuration Utility (PI ICU) 11 Future consideration

PI EMDVB Interface should not use the STARTUP.dat to determine recovery start time when configured in Failover and running in RealTime mode.

Currently when the PI Interface for Emerson DeltaV Batch (EMDVB) is configured for failover and running in RealTime mode, the interface will use a recovery start time (RST) based on the last time the interface was active. This results in the inter...
Bethany Jewett over 1 year ago in PI Interfaces / Batch Interfaces 2 Planned

Allow restarting on a data source basis instead of having to restart the connector

Example 1 - OPC If a new connection needs to be made to one OPC Server, restarting the connector forces all data sources (and potentially connections to multiple OPC Servers) to be restarted. Example 2 - UFL If my web service is down and I do not...
Gabriel Verreault over 3 years ago in PI Connectors / General 3 Declined

OPC UA: allow historical data access

allow historical data access with custom time ranges, like OPC HDA
Clint Ramsey over 3 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for OPC UA 11 Declined

PI Interface for OPC UA

While it is understood that adapters are the future of data source connectivity; there is an immediate need for existing PI system users (especially in the Chemical industry) to transition their data sources from using OPC DA to OPC UA. Many of th...
Brian Rock over 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / General 3 No status

Remote PI ICU

Regardless of where interface info are stored (PI Module DB or AF), it would be useful to have a remote client tool allowing administrator users to configure interfaces  like they do with tags and AF objects. Today when you have to change con...
MAl over 3 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface Configuration Utility (PI ICU) 2 No status

PI Connector for RDBMS

The PI Interface for RDBMS is one of the most used PI Interfaces. Unfortunately, the fact that it is a PI Interface makes it unnecessarily difficult to use, and turning it into a PI Connector can help alleviate this. No more Location codes, squish...
Kenneth Barber over 3 years ago in PI Connectors / New PI Connector Request 9 Declined

Get data by polling

Support acquiring data by polling the OPC UA server rather than subscription.
Guest over 3 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for OPC UA 4 Declined