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.

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.


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    Event mode that applies NoReplace to snapshot as well

    Currently the NoReplace event mode will Append data if a value with the same timestamp as the snapshot comes in. Customer would like an event mode that would discard the value if there is existing data with the same timestamp regardless of the val...
    Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 1 No status

    Method to backup and restore PI Points only

    The PI backup tools currently do not have a method to backup only the files related to PI Points. The purpose of this would be to refresh the point table on a QA system from a production system. The current PI backup method is all or nothing.
    GaryYegiazaryan over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No status

    Negative numbers in digitalsets

    Negative numbers in digitalsets for all PI interface and skip numbers, basically that the digitalset is like the enum of AF
    Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 1 No status

    PI UFL ._OK file rename should be after parsing to avoid data loss during shutdowns

    My understanding of UFL (confirmed by tech support) is that it will rename files to ._OK extension before loading lines into memory. This means that if the service is stopped (such as during an update) and it has not completely read into memory an...
    Davin Ross over 1 year ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface for UFL 0 No status

    Add TCP option to PI UFL Interface

    Currently the only two options are file reading or a serial interface. But what if you have ASCII data streaming from a TCP/telnet source? The configuration would be almost the same as serial - for the connection, rather than a serial port, just n...
    John Alessio 7 months ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface for UFL 0 No status

    PI Server should recover from any ungraceful shutdown

    While the recovery mechanism for queue corruption is much more robust on newer version of PI Data Archive compared to previous versions, there are still few cases where PI Data Archive does not fully recover from ungraceful shutdowns. PI Server sh...
    Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 Declined

    Reduce archive file size by eliminating unused record numbers

    Background: On a Data Archive where many points have been deleted, there will be many unused record numbers. Since the size of an archive file is tied to the highest existing record number (for performance reasons), this can result in archive file...
    Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 5 Declined

    Use of aliases for tag names

    Allow the creation of tag name aliases.  This would allow us to present more user friendly option for tag name searches.  It would also help present a standardized tag name to users for tags from sources that don't follow our standard ta...
    Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 1 Declined

    Ability to Identify Critical (e.g. GxP) PI Tag in SMT

    A checkbox or some mechanism to identify Critical data point (e.g GxP) in SMT. * can be used for search filter to separate critical vs. non-critical data (gxp vs non-gxp) * possible additional layer of confirmation/prompt prior deletion (?)  ...
    Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 1 No status

    Built-in feature to automatically move archive files past a certain age to a different directory

    Automatically move archives from a disk to another based on their age. Use case: I only want to keep the last 2y of data on a SSD and the remaining will be stored on a regular disk. My use case can be achieve using the example PowerShell script l...
    Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No status