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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Offer extended support for PI ProcessBook for security updates only past 2022

As other vendors do, offer customers the option to purchase extended support for PI ProcessBook for security updates only past 2022 for at least one year, and reevaluate annually based on number of customers interested. This would only apply to s...
bgoldinger over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / General 0 No status

Allow output expressions when using implicit Event Frame generation modes

In AF/Analytics 2018, implicit modes of Event Frame generation were introduced (Pulse, Step, and Step Continuous), but they do not allow for an output expression like the explicit trigger. Adding this functionality would allow for EF attribute val...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 2 No status

Allow different naming for Parent and Child Event Frames

Allow a different naming pattern for the child event frames. End result would have the long, uniquely named EFs in the Parent EF as usual, but the Child EFs could have a simplified name, like the level of an alarm that is pulled from an attribute ...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Event Frames (EF) 7 No status

Notifications for events in the past

Currently notifications are not triggered (send) by events that are more than 72 hours in the past. For me it is necessary to get notifications from events in the (endless) past. Ideally I would like to configure for each notification separately t...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Notifications 7 No status

Allow changes to pitimeout table (tuning parameters) to be audited

I can be helpful when tracking down issues or troubleshooting past events what the values of tuning parameters were at a given time. Adding the ability to Audit this table would allow retrospective insight into tuning parameter configurations. A ...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 0 No status

A way to specify within analyses whether input values should be retrieved from the Data Archive or the PIAF Cache

A way to specify within the analyses if input values should be retrieved from the Data Archive or the PIAF Cache. Thereby preventing different results during real-time calculation and for instance backfills and decreasing the execution time of ana...
David Scott 7 months ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 1 No status

PI Analysis Service should pick up change in Cache Refresh Interval of AF Tables

It would be nice if the PI Analysis Service could pick up a change in the Cache Refresh Interval of any AF Table being referenced by input attributes with a table lookup data reference. Currently, a service restart is required.
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 5 No status

Attachment in a Notifications from a file path

As an AF administrator, I  would like to send in an attachment of a Notification files that are specified by file path in AF attributes. I currently do this by specifying the value at start time of an AF attribute that contains the changing f...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Notifications 0 No status

Enable headers for SOAP Web Service Notifications

The feature added in 2017 R2 was for authentication of the SOAP payload, not for managing headers within the payload.  PI remains unusable as a secure source of data for Maximo without it because you can't configure a MAXAUTH header. There's...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Notifications 4 No status

Improve Data Cache Performance by parallelizing Data Archive update fetches

Currently, when the Data Cache is signed up for updates on multiple data archives, updates from each archive are fetched in series, one after another. When there are many data archives involved (especially if they are geographically dispersed) thi...
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 0 No status