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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AVEVA™ PI Server

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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

Allow specifying a path for orphaned elements for ParentID/ElementID functionality

Implement following logic for ParentID/ElementID functionality : if a parent element is not found  (invalid and/or empty ) - put a child element under specified hierarchy. there should be a separate configuration for both options: what to do ...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / General 0 Declined

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can cause bad behaviors (freezes; attributes waiting for values) in PI System Explorer when the password supplied is no longer valid.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

PI Server should recover from any ungraceful shutdown

While the recovery mechanism for queue corruption is much more robust on newer version of PI Data Archive compared to previous versions, there are still few cases where PI Data Archive does not fully recover from ungraceful shutdowns. PI Server sh...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 Declined

Reduce archive file size by eliminating unused record numbers

Background: On a Data Archive where many points have been deleted, there will be many unused record numbers. Since the size of an archive file is tied to the highest existing record number (for performance reasons), this can result in archive file...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 5 Declined

Use of aliases for tag names

Allow the creation of tag name aliases.  This would allow us to present more user friendly option for tag name searches.  It would also help present a standardized tag name to users for tags from sources that don't follow our standard ta...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 1 Declined

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