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.


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Include other languages/cultures into PI Manual Logger

There is only a limited amount of languages available for PI Manual Logger. These are also controlling the Time and Number Format (decimal point or decimal comma). It is not possible to have the desired Time and Number Format with some language co...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Vision™ / Manual Data Entry / PI Manual Logger 0 No status

Provide more user-friendly way to configure backups

As a PI admin, I wish there was a GUI way to set up backup tasks instead of needing to go to the command line to set up my backup task. (FS, 415 hrs) As a PI admin, I have a hard time setting up backup scripts to write to an external data source...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 Declined

Store thread history along with connection history in the server

Storing the thread history(pibasess/piarchss etc) along with the connection history will help to better understand and troubleshoot issues on the archive and will serve as a kind of auditing on the behavior of connections.
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 Declined

PI collective with shared archives

Allow the Primary Data Archive server read-write access to any shared archives. All Secondary data archive servers would have read-only access. This would fix case Case # 925881. We have tags with old timestamps, for example, environmental limits,...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 Declined

Ability to view Instrument Tag and Point Source attributes within PI SMT > Data > Current Values pane

Feature request would be to include Instrument Tag and Point Source attributes to be view-able through the Data > Current Values pane of PI SMT.  This would allow administrators and users the ability to quickly diagnose and/or trace PI Poi...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No status

Event mode that applies NoReplace to snapshot as well

Currently the NoReplace event mode will Append data if a value with the same timestamp as the snapshot comes in. Customer would like an event mode that would discard the value if there is existing data with the same timestamp regardless of the val...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 1 No status

Add Performance counter that displays the %License Match for better tracking

Add Performance counter that displays the %License Match for better system evaluation.
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 1 Declined

Compress archives that are backed up using "Copy"

Currently, when a "copy" backup occurs, the archives are copied as-is. Archive files take up a lot of space, but they also compress very well (if you deleted a bunch of tags without creating as many new ones), and since archive backups are rarely ...
Kenneth Barber over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No status

Improve PI Server Installation kit: disk space requirements should include the minimal PI Backup

When calculating the disk space requirements on a recent upgrade the drive was expected to have only 138 MB installed. But the install failed due to not enough disk space on the drive because the minimal backup needed a certain amount of disk spac...
Nathan Skitt over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 1 No status

PI AF Link & PIBatch - Ability to uninstall it

PI AF Link is not included in PI 2018 but it would be good to be able to remove the link during an upgrade. (not possible today https://customers.osisoft.com/s/knowledgearticle?knowledgeArticleUrl=000027668). Same for PIBatch which cannot be unins...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 1 No status