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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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BUG - GetCommonApplicationDataDirectoryName Fails With Backslashes

In this file, the GetCommonApplicationDataDirectoryName function only looks for a forward slash. However, when copying file paths from Windows File Explorer or manually typing, it can possibly contain a backslash. This causes an error when creatin...
Lance Okonowski 5 days ago in Developer Resources / Adapter Framework 0 No status

Make the Adapter Framework natively compatible with the new Adapter Configuration utility so custom adapters get the same UI-based configuration as AVEVA's own adapters.

Problem Custom adapters built with the Adapter Framework use the same underlying technology and the same edgecmd-based management model as AVEVA's adapters. The new Adapter Configuration utility, however, does not natively support framework-built ...
Matthew Kishe 14 days ago in Developer Resources / Adapter Framework 0 No status

Direct connectivity from Adapter to PI Data Archive servers/collectives using the AF SDK

Feature Request We are requesting support for direct connectivity from the Adapter to PI Data Archive servers/collectives using the AF SDK, as an alternative to the current PI Web API/OMF-based architecture. Problem The current Adapter framework f...
GaryYegiazaryan about 2 months ago in Developer Resources / Adapter Framework 3 No status

EntityMgmt REST API should support /data routes in CONNECT EAP

It is a common use case that users will want to query for stream store data on a given entity, component on an entity, or on the resolved entity. In CONNECT original, REST API routes were supported to get asset data in a single request, for exampl...
Guest about 1 month ago in Developer Resources / CONNECT data services API 0 No status

Begin the display names of all PI services with "AVEVA"

Back when OSIsoft owned PI, all of the PI services began with "PI", and so they all appeared next to each other in the list of services, which is usually sorted alphabetically. However, after AVEVA bought OSIsoft and took over PI, any new PI servi...
Kenneth Barber 25 days ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Installation 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 28 days ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Installation 0 No status

Support security baselining

As a PI administrator, I need to baseline the security configuration of my PI System to ensure OSIsoft security best practices are followed. Below is a list of requested features. Baseline verification (read-only) for PI Data Archive: - PI Data ...
Guest about 4 years ago in Developer Resources / PI System Deployment Tests 2 No status

Send only data that has changed.

When transferring data via satellite it is necessary to keep bandwidth usage to a bare minimum. Currently OMF must send all values regardless of whether they have changed or not. If it could send only the data parameters that have changed that wou...
Guest about 4 years ago in Developer Resources / Open Message Format (OMF) 6 Declined

Allow Definition of Point Attributes via OMF to PI Web API

When creating containers via OMF the PI Points are created with default Point Attributes - if these need to be changed it is a manual process to subsequently change the attributes appropriately. As OMF solutions can be easily deployed it would be ...
Guest about 4 years ago in Developer Resources / Open Message Format (OMF) 2 No status

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 about 4 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Installation 4 No status