Skip to Main Content
AVEVA™ PI System™ Feedback Portal

Welcome to our new 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.


This page is for feedback specifically for AVEVA PI System. For links to our other feedback portals, please see the tab RESOURCES below.

Status No Status
Created by Kenneth Barber
Created on Aug 19, 2022

In the PI Vision install kit, replace the batch (.cmd) scripts with PowerShell (.ps1) scripts

The PI Vision install kit contains the batch scripts "RunCommand.cmd" and "RunSetup.cmd", which should be replaced with PowerShell scripts for several reasons:

  • PowerShell is easier to read and is a more powerful language than the batch language.

  • Batch scripts are best used in Windows, whereas PowerShell is cross-platform. This replacement will support OSIsoft's expansion outside of Windows.

  • Microsoft is pushing for PowerShell and leaving batch files in the dust.

  • The scripts are short and therefore easy to convert to PowerShell scripts.

  • Attach files