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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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205 VOTE

Support PI tag renaming

Tags created by a PI Connector can be renamed, but these renamed points can be "forgotten" if the Connector's point cache is lost. Updating the Tag Mapping configuration file can avoid this cache loss, but I would like to be able to rename Connect...
Guest over 3 years ago in PI Connectors / General 26 Completed

OPC UA server failover based on watchdog tag

Gen2 PI Connector for OPC UA support OPC UA server level failover. How the Connector determine when to failover to the other OPC UA server: As per 6.6.2.4.2 ServiceLevel , this is used by the client to determine whether to connect/disconnect fro...
Ee Sheing Lee about 1 month ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for OPC UA 1 No status

Retrieve data even it's not changed on OPC server

Currently Connector configured to rertieve event on change and not based on a scan class like interfaces.The Connector suscribes to the changes, and when a change comes in to the server, the data will be sent to PI connector. We need option to ret...
Guest over 3 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for OPC UA 13 Declined

Do not synchronize description from OPC UA server into PI Tag

There are situations when customer prefers to use “description” in PI Tag attribute that is independent from item “description” provided by OPC UA Server.   Currently, during each synchronization, the OPC UA Connector synchronizes descri...
Guest over 3 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for OPC UA 10 In development

Control which PI/AF servers each data source sends data to.

Right now, for one instance of the connector, all configured data sources will send data to all configured PI Data Archives and PI AF Servers. It is all or nothing. Due to the fact that you cannot have multiple instances of the same connector on a...
Guest over 3 years ago in PI Connectors / General 0 No status

Configurable input REST data queue file size for PI Connector for UFL

We're working with a large AMI customer, using the PI Connector for UFL as a REST server endpoint to receive meter data. However, during large interrogations, the amount of messages received can be faster than UFL can process, leading to overflowi...
Kendell Jillson about 1 month ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for UFL 0 No status

Transformations and scaling

Add the ability to configure PI points so that the PI Connector for OPC UA performs transformations and scaling on the values before being archived.
Jose Sanchez Colunga over 3 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for OPC UA 3 Declined

Ability to change which PI tag the PI Connector for OPC UA writes to without having recreate new PI tags

Currently, once PI tags are created by the PI Connector for OPC UA the connector uses the point ID for its mapping from the OPC UA server to the PI tags. Thus, if a configuration change occurs on your OPC UA server (i.e. NodeIDs change) the only w...
Guest over 3 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for OPC UA 1 Completed

Support Assigning Point Sources for Connectors

Connectors currently assign point sources; this is not user configurable.  In addition, all connector of like kind get the same point source.  This makes it difficult to determine which tags "belong" to which connector node.  Users ...
Brian Deslatte over 3 years ago in PI Connectors / General 2 Declined

UFL Timezone Conversion

Supported timestamps are currently limited to Local or UTC timezones. Data sources may not be configurable to provide timestamps in supported formats. There currently exists no robust or simple way of converting between timezones using the UFL...
Guest over 3 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for UFL 5 Declined