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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.

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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PI Connectors

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Merge Two Tags or Copy Tag Data to a New Point

Sometimes, when dealing with APS, a new TAG is generated for an existing point. Data stops going to the old point. It would be nice if there was an easy way, within the gui (not manually dumping and importing) that we could take the values from on...
Guest over 2 years ago in PI Connectors / General 4 Declined

Remove or disable the PI Connector UFL function which puts "Excluded" into attributes

If the user has two different UFL flows working on same elements and attributes, one flow puts "Excluded" into the attributes created within the second one and vice versa. Giving the possibility to the user to disable this function would be a sma...
rodolforotti over 2 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for UFL 1 Declined

Connector (UFL) can read AF data structure

Right now it is a limitation because of the current functionality / design. In the future it would be nice if: - the connector can read the existing AF structure - update the existing AF structure - create elements / EF / attributes under existin...
Guest over 2 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for UFL 1 Declined

PI Connector for MQTT - support more generic JSON formats

While the existing support for Sparkplug MQTT format is helpful, this connector would be more useful if it also supported a more generic JSON format.
Guest over 2 years ago in PI Connectors / General 3 Declined

Rollback Option for System Connector

We had an issue with the System Connector and had to reinstall every part of it, but then all tags in the destination system have been created again. The old tags have not been updated anymore. We think about an option to reverse every change the ...
Guest over 2 years ago in PI Connectors / PI System Connector 1 Declined

Add instrumentation to the PI System Connector

Need to add instrumentation to PI System Connector wheras exposing perfmon counters (so PI perfmon can store accordingly in PI tags) on AVG data flow in events/sec for a 120 seconds time period, status of the connector, etc
Guest over 2 years ago in PI Connectors / PI System Connector 1 Declined

PI System connector creates additional data on start up

When PI System connector is stopped and started (as a service or in UI), duplicate event is received and archived by the target PI Data Archive. The write mode for the PI Connector Relay is append, in this case history recovery will include/send t...
Guest over 2 years ago in PI Connectors / PI System Connector 0 Declined

Collect units of measure and description from Siemens Simatic PCS 7

Support collecting units and description from the Siemens Simatic PCS 7 system and writing them to the AF attribute and the PI Point attributes.
Guest over 2 years ago in PI Connectors / Other specific PI Connector 1 Declined

Failover for PI Connector Relay

Although, the PI Connector Relay going down / not being available does not cause data loss since the connector data is buffered, if the source connector supports Failover, the relay becomes the only single point of failure in the data flow. Havi...
Gabriel Verreault over 2 years ago in PI Connectors / General 4 Declined

Option to replicate PI Point security attribute with PI System Connector

The current version of PI System Connector does not support replicating the PI Point security attributes: •Point Security •Data Security •Data Access •Data Group •Data Owner •Point Access A further option would be to automatically create an...
Guest over 2 years ago in PI Connectors / PI System Connector 1 Declined