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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.

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"Create Only" mode for AF Template Tag Creation

It's possible to inadvertently change the tag attributes for production tags if they are used with an attribute that has tag creation set. It would be safer if there was a lock that allowed new tags to be created, but blocked tag attribute changes...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 1 Declined

Allow specifying Primary attribute category

Allow specifying primary attribute category in AF and allow to use following options in the "Group by -  Category" menu in PI System Explorer: - show attributes in all categories - show attributes in primary category only (hide duplicate attr...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 1 Declined

Option to reconcile templates during xml import

Suppose the following scenario: a user has 2 AF databases (a development and a production one), both containing same version of a template. The user deletes a few attributes and analyses from one element template (development), exports the xml and...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 2 No status

Longer passwords PI AF Table Connector

This is really a bug/security risk; but the support team has requested that a "Customer Voice" be raised. Support passwords longer than 15 characters in the PI AF Table Connector.
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 No status

Add array sorting function to AF Analytics.

This would also enable calculation of percentiles. Percentile calculation would also be possible if the user could use nested substitution parameters in array functions. For example: RecVals := RecordedValues('Attribute1', start, end) CountLowe...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 No status

Alert user when the interface discards values

Example:  When using a distribution tag, the number of tags returned and number of values sent to PI can be mismatched, due to missing aliases or data that does not need to be collected. It would be helpful to identify what values are droppe...
Guest over 3 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface for RDBMS 0 No status

Upgrade the PI Interface Configuration Utility to use only the Microsoft Visual C++ 2015-2022 Redistributable

The PI Interface Configuration Utility install kit currently includes both the 2012 and the 2019 Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributables. Please upgrade the PI Interface Configuration Utility so that it requires only the Microsoft Visual C++ 2015-20...
Kenneth Barber over 3 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface Configuration Utility (PI ICU) 2 No status

PItoPI should switch from COLD to WARM failover instead of exiting

As of version 3.8.1 COLD failover is no longer supported by the PI to PI Interface (https://techsupport.osisoft.com/Troubleshooting/Enhancements/19255OSI8). However, older versions supported COLD failover. In the case of upgrading the interfaces, ...
Guest over 3 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI to PI Interface 2 No status

Support dynamic OPC addresses

My OPC server's items have the OPC server node name included in the itemID, for example: serverA.AB_1234.PV. I have redundant OPC servers and redundant interfaces (in failover) and would like the tags to refer to the correct OPC address including ...
Guest over 3 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface for OPC DA 0 No status

Add a watchdog counter to API shared memory

Add a watchdog counter or something similar into the shared memory header. If the counter fails to update, initiate UFO. If PIBufSS crashes, data loss can occur.  implement something that allows UniInt to know that the Buffer Subsystem is n...
Clint Ramsey over 3 years ago in PI Interfaces / General 1 No status