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AVEVA™ PI System™ Feedback Portal

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Automatic restart of the OPC interface whenever OPC server is restarted

whenever the OPC server undergoes any restarts or configuration changes, the OPC interface will delete all old connections, groups, etc. and it will establish a new connection to the OPC server, loading all ItemID's etc (as if it is an automatic r...
Guest over 3 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface for OPC DA 2 No status

Add 'Time Zone = Server' to PI OLEDB Enterprise

'Time Zone = Server' is available in PI OLEDB Provider, but has not been added to 'PI OLEDB Enterprise'. We have PI Data Archives in multiple time zones and require the ability to select the data in the server time zone.
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI System Access (PSA) / PI OLEDB Enterprise 2 Declined

Support dynamic OPC addresses

My OPC server's items have the OPC server node name included in the itemID, for example: serverA.AB_1234.PV. I have redundant OPC servers and redundant interfaces (in failover) and would like the tags to refer to the correct OPC address including ...
Guest over 3 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface for OPC DA 0 No status

Interface should reload performance counters after failover and keep track of them.

The interface should be designed to reload counters both at startup and when becoming the active interface after a failover. The interface should realize the counter is not available and periodically attempt to reload (ideally with a message to th...
Nicolas Capera Choconta over 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface for OPC DA 0 No status

Provide the option to install the PI OLEDB Enterprise Server Agent without installing PI RTQP Engine

Currently if you are using the PI SQL Data Access Server (RTQP Engine) 2023 SP1 install kit to install the PI OLEDB Enterprise Server Agent, you must also install the RTQP Engine as well. As a PI System Admin, I would like the option to only insta...
Bethany Jewett 9 months ago in AVEVA™ PI System Access (PSA) / PI OLEDB Enterprise 0 No status

Add in the Element Hierarchy table information to determine the primary reference of a copied reference element

When an element is copied as reference (parent-child) elsewhere in the tree it then has multiple parents. One of it is the primary parent. This information needs to be added to the hierarchy tables.
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI System Access (PSA) / PI OLEDB Enterprise 1 Declined

Convert incoming string data to float and provide division all in the same tag instead of a PE

OPC server is outputting data with the currency data type (VT_CY) and it needs to be stored in the float type.  As per the OPCtoCSV document, the OPCtoCSV tool/OPC interface invokes VariantChangeType in order to convert this currency value to...
jagdish.konathala over 3 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface for OPC DA 0 No status

OPC DA, A&E historical recovery

We have seen that the primary OPC interface will be connected but we don't see data coming across since the OPC server itself seems to have a problem. Since the connection is still active we won't failover to the secondary. We have to leave Notifi...
Guest over 3 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface for OPC DA 0 No status

OPC DA interface to read data for advise and polled tags at startup

If digital tags are part of advise groups and the flag to write "Intf Shut" is enabled in the OPC DA interface, then digital tags can read "Intf Shut" for hours/days/weeks, if the value does not change after an interface restart (for example, 2 pu...
caffreys_col over 3 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface for OPC DA 0 No status

Preferring a primary interface failover member

hen the primary Interface becomes available and healthy again, it becomes "back up". I need the primary Interface to become the "primary" whenever it is healthy. https://pisquare.osisoft.com/thread/42591-revert-back-to-primary-data-collector
Guest over 3 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface for OPC DA 1 No status