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AVEVA™ PI System™ Feedback Portal

Welcome to our 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.

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PI Connectors

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327 VOTE

Connector-level Failover - OPC UA 2.x

Support connector-level failover in PI Connector for OPC UA 2.x (relay-enabled version). Similar to UniInt failover (interfaces), failover should be data source specific and always favor the data source in the better state.
Gabriel Verreault about 2 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for OPC UA 35 Declined
206 VOTE

Monitoring Connector health

Support for health tags (similar to UniInt health tags), Windows performance counters, or any other way to bring Connector status and health information into PI tags to put them side-by-side with Interface health monitoring.
Guest about 2 years ago in PI Connectors / General 42 Declined
123 VOTE

Develop an interactive INI editor for the UFL Connector

The editor should allow you to see in real time how it interacts with the data. Being able to test the INI file prior to loading some file would make it much more manageable to read a variety of data format and insure that it has the expected beha...
Gabriel Verreault about 2 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for UFL 7 Declined
105 VOTE

PI OPC UA Connector Array support

Add reading capability for OPC UA Arrays. Currently items with “ValueRank“ = 1 are ignored.
Guest about 2 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for OPC UA 11 No status

OPC UA - Add Option to not browse item before creating a monitored item

Need an option in Tag only Mode to force connector to create a monitored item without browsing item. Some OPC servers require creating a monitored item BEFORE the item can be browsed.
JTWhite 2 months ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for OPC UA 0 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 about 2 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 about 2 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for OPC UA 9 In development

Allow restarting on a data source basis instead of having to restart the connector

Example 1 - OPC If a new connection needs to be made to one OPC Server, restarting the connector forces all data sources (and potentially connections to multiple OPC Servers) to be restarted. Example 2 - UFL If my web service is down and I do not...
Gabriel Verreault about 2 years ago in PI Connectors / General 3 Declined

OPC UA: allow historical data access

allow historical data access with custom time ranges, like OPC HDA
Clint Ramsey about 2 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for OPC UA 11 Declined

PI Connector for RDBMS

The PI Interface for RDBMS is one of the most used PI Interfaces. Unfortunately, the fact that it is a PI Interface makes it unnecessarily difficult to use, and turning it into a PI Connector can help alleviate this. No more Location codes, squish...
Kenneth Barber about 2 years ago in PI Connectors / New PI Connector Request 9 Declined