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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Have Platform Common services for PI use least privilege access on the Azure directory

Some Azure Active Directory (Entra ID) administrators will be hesitant to give the registered application for the AIM Server Directory.Read.All privileges. It should be feasible to give the application lesser privileges on the directory while stil...
Housnat Aboubacar 5 months ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Security 0 No status

Selectively install 32-bit versus 64-bit versions of PI programs

Currently, install kits such as those of PI DataLink, PI AF Client, PI API, PI SDK, PI OLEDB Provider, PI OLEDB Enterprise, and PI SQL Client always install both the 32-bit and 64-bit versions. Most of the time, one of these versions is unused and...
Kenneth Barber over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Installation 3 No status

Ability to specify default AF database during installation of PI AF Client

Currently, the PI AF Client installation allows the user to select a default PI Data Archive and default AF server but not a default AF database. It would be nice, especially for silent installations, to be able to specify the default AF database ...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Installation 0 No status

In the PI Server install kit, label deprecated components as such and state the replacement

The PI Server install kit includes many deprecated components, namely: PI Totalizer Subsystem PI Alarm Subsystem PI Performance Equation Scheduler PI Batch Subsystem PI Module Database Builder AF Collective Manager Also, the PI AF Link Subsystem i...
Kenneth Barber over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Installation 0 No status

Create 2 new client install kits: PI System Client & PI For Excel

Administrators and regular users of PI are mainly concerned with these PI client programs: PI System Management Tools PI System Explorer PI Builder PI DataLink However, the install kits are not beginner-friendly: Many users think that PI DataLink ...
Kenneth Barber over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Installation 4 No status

Include a "Disable" option for Table Connections

Linked Tables can cause bad behaviors (freezes; attributes waiting for values) in PI System Explorer when the password supplied is no longer valid. The solution is to update the password, or delete the Table Connection if the new password isn't av...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / General 0 No status

Ability to Identify Critical (e.g. GxP) PI Tag in SMT

A checkbox or some mechanism to identify Critical data point (e.g GxP) in SMT. * can be used for search filter to separate critical vs. non-critical data (gxp vs non-gxp) * possible additional layer of confirmation/prompt prior deletion (?)  ...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 1 No status

Built-in feature to automatically move archive files past a certain age to a different directory

Automatically move archives from a disk to another based on their age. Use case: I only want to keep the last 2y of data on a SSD and the remaining will be stored on a regular disk. My use case can be achieve using the example PowerShell script l...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No status

When archive corruption is noted, automatically force a shift to a new archive

As a PI system user and administrator, I am interested in minimizing data loss due to a corrupted Archive. Please include an automated fix when corruption is noted. The PI server could force a shift to a new archive and re-processes the corrupted ...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No status

Make failback function optional

In the DA collective there is a function called "Failback". The function is described as: << When the collective member which the client application was connected to becomes unavailable, the client connection starts monitoring when the memb...
ErikJansson over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No status