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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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UniInt should include a test mode for all interfaces that collects data but does not send it to PI.

This functionality would allow users to test the connection to the data source and inspect the data that is retrieved without sending it to PI. That data might be written to a text file, for example. This would allow users to verify settings and ...
Guest about 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / General 0 Declined

UNIINT Interfaces and Connectors should be able to retry an output event if output write fails

When an interface fails writing to a DCS system, the interface writes a failure status to the output tag and goes on.  User has requested an option to have an output tag retry after write failure. It would be good to have this functionality i...
jdjohnstn about 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / General 0 No status

Ability to wait successful connection to PI Data Archive and download PI point information during startup

(Posted on behalf of our customer) It can reduce the chance of startup failure because of the connection to PI Data Archive time-out. It's also helpful if interface can reduce time to get PI point information from PI Data Archive.
Guest about 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / General 0 No status

Monthly scans

Allow for monthly scan intervals for scan classes. i.e. "scan monthly on the first hour of the first day of every month".
Guest about 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / General 3 No status

Allowing output point with source tag to keep working even after switching to secondary server

When primary server is down, secondary server is accessed instead of primary server, which is good. However, in the case of output point with source tag, it stops working, then restarting the interface instance of interest is needed. Of course, if...
Toshiro Chiba about 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / General 0 No status

Retire 32-bit versions of PI Interfaces that have a 64-bit version

These days, 32-bit operating systems are used for 1 of 2 reasons: Somebody accidentally installed the 32-bit version instead of the 64-bit version, which is a mistake that OSIsoft has no obligation to accommodate. The computer is very old, in whic...
Kenneth Barber about 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / General 1 No status

Migrate the PI Universal Interface (UniInt) Framework to use PI AF SDK

Most PI Interfaces are based on the PI Universal Interface (UniInt) Framework and rely on PI API and its successor, PI SDK. PI SDK has, in turn, been superseded by PI AF SDK. PI SDK also relies on the deprecated and insecure ActiveX technology, wh...
Kenneth Barber about 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / General 0 No status

PI BES Interface (i.e. PI EMDVB): aliasing of Unit Names

Currently the interface creates PI UnitBatches or Event Frames associated to Units (PI Units or AF Elements) determined by some placeholders specified at the "Unit Procedure" level; the default is "[AREA]\[PROCESSCELL]\[UNIT]". Moreover the inter...
MAl about 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / Batch Interfaces 0 Declined

Ability to setup scheduled history recovery in PI Event Frame Generator Interface

No description provided
Guest about 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / Batch Interfaces 0 Declined

PI EFGEN Interface -- Allow the "time true" fuction for EFGen

in order to eliminate unwanted or noise event which be triggered and recovered in a short period.
Guest about 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / Batch Interfaces 0 Declined