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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Collect more information about the host operating system environment. For example: is it running Windows Core

As a system administrator or as an upgrade implementation planner, I need to know the operating system environment that is hosting the software. mPI (Managed PI) collects information about the host OS version, whether physical or virtualized, and ...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 0 Declined

Use full names and supported ranges in the Point Type dropdown menu in the Point Builder

Consider writing out each point type in full and putting the range of numbers that is supports beside the point type name, making sure the the names are aligned in their own "column" and that the ranges are aligned in their own "column". Examples...
Kenneth Barber over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 0 Declined

Allow PIWorld and piusers to be deleted

Nobody should be using the "PIWorld" PI Identity or the "piusers" PI Group. The most that we can do at the moment is disable them. It would be much better if we can just delete them and never look back.
Kenneth Barber over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 1 No status

PSD to report on SQL Server install

I would like PSD to report on the SQL Server install. SQL Server is a core component of a PI system as it is required by AF, and used by PI Vision and PI Manual Logger. Similar to the OS information, I want to know where SQL Server is installed in...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 0 Declined

Warn the user of unsaved changes in the Archive Editor

Currently, unsaved changes in the Archive Editor are silently discarded if the user refreshes the tab, closes the tab, performs a new search in the same tab, or exits PI System Management Tools. Please instead warn the user of their unsaved change...
Kenneth Barber over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 0 No status

Tuning parameters or PI setting that could be enabled to prevent duplicate data

Tuning parameters or PI setting that could be enabled to prevent duplicate data(tag, timestamp, value the same) from being inserted into PI.  Would be a global setting that could be applied at the archive level to prevent all interface types ...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 2 Declined

See latest use (Date/Time) of a configured trust (or MDB Interfaces entry) within PI SMT

Every time a PI Database is restarted the interfaces and connections will reestablish their connection to the PI Database fresh restarted PI Database. This is an opportunity to write the last used (last seen) time stamp for the configured PI Trust...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 1 Declined

By default, do not install the PI Module Database Builder when the PI System Management Tools install kit is run

Similar to how the PI DataLink install kit included PI DataLink (Legacy) but required manual modification to setup.ini in order to install it (this was before PI DataLink Legacy was dropped from the PI DataLink install kit entirely), the PI Module...
Kenneth Barber over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 1 No status

Make the tuning parameter PointDb_RemoveEmptySource visible by default

This tuning parameter toggles the automatic deletion of unused point sources. By default, it is hidden and the automatic deletion is disabled. Point sources are used mainly for PI Interfaces, which are slowly being replaced with PI Connectors and...
Kenneth Barber over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 0 No status

Use geolocation to find nearby assets around me

Use geolocation to find assets around the location of another asset. For example, find all wells within 2 miles of well 1043.
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 2 No status