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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    Allow AF indexing to continue when encountering an element attribute's inability to a get current value and avoid the reindexing loop for a newly added AF Server

    A single attribute's inability to get a current value cause the ENTIRETY of the indexing process to get locked into an infinite loop when adding an AF server to PI to CONNECT agent (ie a small subset of bad attributes should not be preventing the ...
    Guest 14 minutes ago in PI to CONNECT / General 0 No status

    Allow managed service accounts to be specified for each service during installation

    There are KB articles that talk about how to switch the services of the PI Server install kit to use managed service accounts and grant them the appropriate permissions: https://softwaresupportsp.aveva.com/en-US/knowledge/details/000098101 htt...
    Kenneth Barber about 3 hours ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Installation 0 No status

    Make it easier to use a managed service account to run PI Web API

    This KB article describes how to run PI Web API using a managed service account. Basically, you set up PI Web API with the default NT SERVICE\piwebapi virtual account, then switch PI Web API to use the managed service account, and then rerun and c...
    Kenneth Barber about 4 hours ago in AVEVA™ PI System Access (PSA) / PI Web API 0 No status

    Incorporate the concepts of PI System Directory and PI System Health into CONNECT

    For a short while, OSIsoft had a program called "PI System Directory", which allowed you to monitor, from a web interface, which versions of which PI programs were installed on each PI server, among other things. PI System Directory Publisher had ...
    Kenneth Barber about 19 hours ago in PI to CONNECT / General 0 No status

    State all of the missing dependencies when running the installer

    When you run the installer, the installer checks for dependencies, and as soon as it encounters a missing dependency, it reports it and stops checking for the rest. It should instead check for all of the dependencies and report all of the missing ...
    Kenneth Barber 1 day ago in PI to CONNECT / General 0 No status

    Remove the dependence on .NET Framework

    According to the documentation, the PI To CONNECT Agent requires both .NET Framework and .NET to be installed, which is odd since .NET is the successor to .NET Framework and so, in theory, you should need only .NET. Perhaps this shows that the PI ...
    Kenneth Barber 1 day ago in PI to CONNECT / General 0 No status

    Include the port number in service principal names (SPNs) when the port number is not (and never will be) configurable

    In particular, the PI Data Archive's port 5450 is not configurable and the PI Asset Framework's port 5457 is not configurable, and both programs require SPNs. The SPNs that are expected to be assigned to the service account of the PI Data Archive'...
    Kenneth Barber 1 day ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Security 0 No status

    Allow the PI AF Application Service and the PI OLEDB Enterprise Server Agent to use different service accounts

    In the release notes of PI SQL Data Access Server (RTQP Engine) 2024 R2, the solutions to known issues 3076509 and 3076508 form an awkward situation. The PI AF Application Service and the PI OLEDB Enterprise Server Agent must run as the same accou...
    Kenneth Barber 3 days ago in AVEVA™ PI System Access (PSA) / PI OLEDB Enterprise 0 No status
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    Manually Enter Data for Attribute/Tag

    Be able to manually enter data into an AF element attribute or a PI tag from a PI Vision display.
    Guest about 4 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Vision™ / Manual Data Entry 77 In development

    Support PI OPC UA Server-Redundancy for Server-Level failover

    Currently we are exporting data to a third party via data chain PI DA Collectives -> PI OPC DA Server -> Cogent OPC UA Wrapper -> APIS OPC UA Client on Third party side. This configuration is redundant, but the Cogent OPC UA wrapper does ...
    Ondřej Kafna 19 days ago in AVEVA™ PI System Access (PSA) / AVEVA PI OPC UA Server 0 No status