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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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AVEVA™ PI Server

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Limit rate of published changes through PI Builder

A lot of PI servers we work with have a high system load. When we create, change or delete PI Points in PI Builder we have to do a few hundred points at a time and monitor the Pending Events counter from Update Subsystem on the PI server to make s...
Robert 11 months ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / PI Builder 0 No status

Publish performance metrics

Performance metrics for the PI Server should be published with each release of the product.
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Help / Documentation / Videos 0 No status

Auditviewer separation of roles

I want to separate the security roles between 1) the ability to run an Auditviewer report and (potentially) associate a change control record to a configuration change and 2) the PI Admin Role in order to minimize security risk.
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Security 1 No status

Be able to configure PI AF security in a single PI System Explorer window

Currently, there are 2 windows to configure PI AF security, and it is a pain to switch between them: File → Database → Edit Security, which is used to assign permissions to identities File → Server Properties → Identities tab and Mappings tab, whi...
Kenneth Barber over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Security 1 Declined

We need a method to send pi message log to syslog server

Provide a configurable export of PI Message log to syslog server.
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Security 0 No status

Have a consistent presence of a terminating \ in the PIHOME and PIHOME64 environment variables

By default, PIHOME is "C:\Program Files (x86)\PIPC" and PIHOME64 is "C:\Program Files\PIPC\". For new installations, please consider either having the terminating \ on both or removing the terminating \ from both. The current inconsistency can con...
Kenneth Barber over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Installation 0 No status

Remove PI System Explorer (Legacy 32-bit) from PI AF Client

When PI AF Client is installed, it includes a program called "PI System Explorer (Legacy 32-bit)". Please remove this from PI AF Client. The continued support of 32-bit PI AF SDK makes sense, since 3rd-party programs may still depend on the 32-bit...
Kenneth Barber over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Installation 2 No status

The PI Server Installation kit should list the PI software requirements sooner in the install

As a PI System Administrator, I would like the PI Server Installation kit to list out any PI Software that will be included with a selected role or feature before the Summary step so that I can determine what will be installed without having to fi...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Installation 0 No status

Pi Point removal tied to AF Element Delete

Originally posted on PI Square at https://pisquare.osisoft.com/ideas/5268-pi-point-removal-tied-to-af-element-delete We need the ability to remove PI Points when deleting AF Elements in a single command execution like Builder does PI Point creati...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / General 1 No status

Make a GUI for PI Backups for easy management

It would be interesting to have a GUI, maybe inside PI SMT, that would allow users to configure their PIBackups directly without having to mess around in 2-3 batch files. Checkboxes for the most common options, Active/inactive box etc. You could...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 Declined