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AVEVA™ PI System™ Feedback Portal

Welcome to our feedback site!


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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Running PI System within Docker

Run the PI Server within Docker (https://www.docker.com/) to get better economies of scale.  Might already be possible, but need advice supporting this architecture.
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Installation 5 Declined

New function for Ethernet/IP (“scanner”)

Add the function to able to act as (“scanner”). At this moment the connect can only act as an adapter, that means that It can't collect data from other device that also are connector is an adapter. https://www.odva.org/Technology-Standards/EtherNe...
Guest over 2 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for Ethernet/IP 0 No status

Ability to monitor which OPC UA Connector is active in a failover pair

As a PI administrator, I need to monitor which OPC UA Connector in a failover pair is currently active. When the primary OPC UA Connector goes down, I need an email notification, and vice versa when the secondary OPC UA Connector goes down.
Guest over 2 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for OPC UA 1 No status

Grid View Order Groups as Configured in PIML PC

The order of Groups in Grid View should match the order configured in PIML PC Client
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Vision™ / Manual Data Entry / PI Manual Logger 1 Declined

Incremental backups are not possible because of frequent backfilling

Occasional back filling of data would cause 5 TB of archives to be backed up with incremental backups. This is frustrating because only a few KB of data is changed in each archive. Can OSIsoft provide a way to backup only the data that has changed...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 3 No status

User-defined functions

Allow arguments/parameters to be passed to variable definitions, effectively creating user-defined functions. For example, suppose that I want to define the function TagSum, which adds the values at all events in a time range. Then: TagSum(tag, s...
Kenneth Barber over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 4 No status

Custom Delivery Channels in PI Notifications (newer versions)

Originally posted on PI Square at https://pisquare.osisoft.com/ideas/3778-custom-delivery-channels-in-pi-notifications-newer-versions Customer would like to have the Custom Delivery Channels in PI Notifications 2012 upgraded to the newer versions...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 7 Declined

Totalizer that resets to 0 with Asset based Analytics

I need to calculate a running sum (totalizer) of a PI Point and reset it to 0 at the beginning of each month. I would like to do this with Asset based Analytics. There are workarounds to do this, but none are great. For example, one workaround inv...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 2 No status

Better search criteria in Management tab of PI System Explorer

PI System Explorer Management Tab should have better search criteria. For example, select specific elements in which to rerun an Analysis. Maybe use Element = something OR/AND Element = something else. Or search by element path.
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 2 No status

PI Tag Renaming Detection for PI Vision/PE Calculations

When input PI Tags are referenced in PI Vision 2020+ calculations, they do not automatically detect PI Tag name changes. For users with a lot of calculations, this can be extremely problematic in the event of a PI Tag name change. In the event of ...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 2 No status