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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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PI Analysis Performance Checker

Currently PI Analysis Service has a built-in Statistics tool in PI System Explorer. It is able to show statistics regarding Evaluation and Calculation Lag as well as Skipped Evaluations and some other important information. PI System Explorer ...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 1 No status

Support AWS RDS SQL Server instances as backend DBs for AF

Our company is progressively superseding the deployment of hosts with SQL Server installed, while moving towards the usage of SQL Server instances provided by AWS' Relational Database Service as the DB backend. Although currently OSISoft does not ...
alviserossi over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 8 Evaluating

Define default scheduling for newly created PI Analyses

When creating new analyses with Asset Analytics, our users sometimes forget to modify the scheduling from natural to periodic, which might lead to high trigger ratios and degraded performance. AF should allow administrators to define the default a...
Rafael Batista 10 months ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 1 No status

Improve Asset Analytics Data Cache performance to handle large scale changes

There is a considerable amount of downtime in our system (20+ minutes) when a template change is performed. The root cause is a limitation on how the analysis service handles the removal of AF Attributes from the Data Cache. Due to this limitation...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 2 Evaluating

Percentile function

As a user of analyses, I would like to have a Percentile function so that I can filter out atypical events when doing summary calls. The function would look like this: Percentile('attribute', 'timerange', value). This is related to enhancement req...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 4 No status

Update PI-AF install procedure to handle custom PIFD Naming

If hosting multiple AF DBs on a single SQL instance it is necessary to rename the PIFD default name to a unique name. For instance PIFD_<AFHostname> The current PI-AF install routine does not handle this situation - forcing a step to rename ...
thomasco about 1 month ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Installation 0 No status

Ensure data is identical between collective members

As a PI Administrator, I need to trust that the data is identical between my collective members. Currently, there is no way for me to be sure it is the same unless I do a side by side comparison. Data can be missing, or slightly off, and I have no...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 6 Tell us more

Expose backfilling/recalculation status in the AFSDK

Currently analysis runtime information can be accessed programmatically using the AFSDK (AFAnalysisService.RuntimeInformationFields - https://techsupport.osisoft.com/Documentation/PI-AF-SDK/html/P_OSIsoft_AF_Analysis_AFAnalysisService_RuntimeInfor...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 4 No status

Add configurable defaults for PI Point "Pointsecurity" and "Datasecurity"

Read access to the PIPOINT table is required for most identities. Pointsecurity and Datasecurity currently use the settings on the PIPOINT table as the default. New points will generally give read access to most identities because of these default...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Security 2 No status

Allow writing arrays as a time series to an output

I would like to be able to configure outputs in an analysis to write at multiple time points (which are defined by the result of an array function). My use case is to: 1. Configure an attribute as a Time Series Table Lookup 2. Create an analysi...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 2 Tell us more