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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Remove installation kits' dependency on write permission to root C:\.

Some organizations do not provide admin accounts with write permission to the root C:\ directory. The install kits of most PI products copy the setup.ini to C:\pisetup.ini, and then write the logs to C:\ before moving them to %pipc%\dat, both of w...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Installation 4 No status

Add relevant windows service dependency via installer.

Following KB01345 & 000036461 we have to manually add dependency where applicable. Please consider adding similar service dependency than we have via PI ICU for new interface (depend on pibufss): - AFService depend on relevant MSSQL$ service ...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Installation 1 No status

Link to user manual/ help file unavailable from UI

The connector UI does not contain any link to the help documentation or the user manual. The files are also not found in the standard PIPC path and are available only with the installation extarction
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Installation 0 No status

Re-instate the default tags and random/ramp soak interfaces

These were removed from the 2018 SP3 install kit as OSI found many customers removed these tags and interfaces after installation. However, our experience is the opposite and these tags are massively useful for diagnostic, experimental and trainin...
Alistair over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Installation 2 No status

Selectively install 32-bit versus 64-bit versions of PI programs

Currently, install kits such as those of PI DataLink, PI AF Client, PI API, PI SDK, PI OLEDB Provider, PI OLEDB Enterprise, and PI SQL Client always install both the 32-bit and 64-bit versions. Most of the time, one of these versions is unused and...
Kenneth Barber over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Installation 3 No status

Ability to specify default AF database during installation of PI AF Client

Currently, the PI AF Client installation allows the user to select a default PI Data Archive and default AF server but not a default AF database. It would be nice, especially for silent installations, to be able to specify the default AF database ...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Installation 0 No status

In the PI Server install kit, label deprecated components as such and state the replacement

The PI Server install kit includes many deprecated components, namely: PI Totalizer Subsystem PI Alarm Subsystem PI Performance Equation Scheduler PI Batch Subsystem PI Module Database Builder AF Collective Manager Also, the PI AF Link Subsystem i...
Kenneth Barber over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Installation 0 No status

Create 2 new client install kits: PI System Client & PI For Excel

Administrators and regular users of PI are mainly concerned with these PI client programs: PI System Management Tools PI System Explorer PI Builder PI DataLink However, the install kits are not beginner-friendly: Many users think that PI DataLink ...
Kenneth Barber over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Installation 4 No status

Have a consistent presence of a terminating \ in the PIHOME and PIHOME64 environment variables

By default, PIHOME is "C:\Program Files (x86)\PIPC" and PIHOME64 is "C:\Program Files\PIPC\". For new installations, please consider either having the terminating \ on both or removing the terminating \ from both. The current inconsistency can con...
Kenneth Barber over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Installation 0 No status

Remove PI System Explorer (Legacy 32-bit) from PI AF Client

When PI AF Client is installed, it includes a program called "PI System Explorer (Legacy 32-bit)". Please remove this from PI AF Client. The continued support of 32-bit PI AF SDK makes sense, since 3rd-party programs may still depend on the 32-bit...
Kenneth Barber over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Installation 2 No status