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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Support for "RTU over TCP" for Modbus Adapter using MBAP header

Challenge: Today, the PI Adapter for Modbus TCP does not natively support " RTU over TCP". It does support Modbus TCP, so as long as the "bridge" properly converts Modbus RTU to Modbus TCP (including the MBAP header), it should work fine. If the b...
Hans-Otto Weinhold about 1 year ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / AVEVA Adapter for Modbus TCP 0 No status

Provide possibility to create stream metadata from table data

Today we are collecting data from our AspenTech IP21 Server thorugh the PI Adapter for OPC UA and the related AspenTech OPC UA Server. This works perfectly fine for analogue data but not for data which is providing us equipment status information ...
Hans-Otto Weinhold about 1 year ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / AVEVA Adapter for RDBMS 0 No status

Provide additional time formatting options for RDBMS Queries

Background: Today we are collecting data from our AspenTech IP21 Server thorugh the PI Adapter for OPC UA and the related AspenTech OPC UA Server. This works perfectly fine for analogue data but not for data which is providing us equipment status ...
Hans-Otto Weinhold about 1 year ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / AVEVA Adapter for RDBMS 1 Tell us more

Filter expression '<tagname>'="string" syntax should allow wildcards

Performance Equations syntax for filtering in SMT and Datalink should allow wildcards for strings: For instance, ''="*substring*" interprets the * as a literal character rather than as a wildcard. To achieve the desired filter, it is currently po...
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 0 Declined

Clearly label or group together obsolete/deprecated/legacy features

PI System Management Tools is littered with legacy features. By grouping them together or clearly labeling them as "legacy" or similar, the user knows which features to use or migrate away from without having to look up each feature individually.
Kenneth Barber about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 5 Declined

Normalized view of the Database Security Table

Currently, the Security column in the Database Security Table uses the following notation for its values (example): piadmin: A(r,w) | piadmins: A(r,w) | PI Readers: A(r) | PIWorld: A(r) This crams multiple PI Identities and access types into a si...
Kenneth Barber about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 1 Declined

Collect more information about the host operating system environment. For example: is it running Windows Core

As a system administrator or as an upgrade implementation planner, I need to know the operating system environment that is hosting the software. mPI (Managed PI) collects information about the host OS version, whether physical or virtualized, and ...
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 0 Declined

Use full names and supported ranges in the Point Type dropdown menu in the Point Builder

Consider writing out each point type in full and putting the range of numbers that is supports beside the point type name, making sure the the names are aligned in their own "column" and that the ranges are aligned in their own "column". Examples...
Kenneth Barber about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 0 Declined

Allow PIWorld and piusers to be deleted

Nobody should be using the "PIWorld" PI Identity or the "piusers" PI Group. The most that we can do at the moment is disable them. It would be much better if we can just delete them and never look back.
Kenneth Barber about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 1 No status

PSD to report on SQL Server install

I would like PSD to report on the SQL Server install. SQL Server is a core component of a PI system as it is required by AF, and used by PI Vision and PI Manual Logger. Similar to the OS information, I want to know where SQL Server is installed in...
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 0 Declined