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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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Separate priority setting for Data Read and Data Write

Data Read and Date Write (Buffering) from/to PI Data Archive is based on the priority settings in PI SDK and PSE. We have a architecture of 6 member PI collective and all the source data is not buffered to the individual collective. Hence for othe...
vasanth51 over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 2 No status

Include usernames in pidiag -xa export of PI Archive audit trail

As a PI Administrator in a regulated environment, it would be helpful if the Archive audit trail data exported by the pidiag -xa command included the username associated with each action. Currently, the pidiag -xa exports of archive audit logs do ...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 1 No status

Uni-Int to write to scan-class health tags on startup

We've noticed this particularly with the RDBMS-PI interface when configured for failover: Health tags that are only written to when the interface becomes primary or has completed its first scan (eg Point Count, Scan Class I/O Rate etc.) say 'Intf ...
Guest over 3 years ago in PI Interfaces / General 0 No status

Separate commonly used PI Interfaces that do not have a successor into read-only and write-only versions

Currently, it is recommended to use the read-only version of a PI Interface if only reading is required, and to have separate read and write instances of the read-write version of a PI Interface if writing is required. (Reference: https://docs.osi...
Kenneth Barber over 3 years ago in PI Interfaces / General 1 No status

PI SMT's Archive Editor should support manually adding NULL values

Archive Editor in PI System Management Tools should support writing NULL values (ie, empty strings). This is currently supported by other PI Clients. For example, it is possible to write empty strings using PI System Explorer as well as using a PI...
Bethany Jewett 11 months ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No status

Include Windows Counters/OMF Health for Message Log Event Rate

Having metrics that count the number of messages being written to the message log, and categorized by severity, gives a great dashboard overview of the status of PI data archive. For example, having a events/min count of error messages historized ...
Mike Horrocks over 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No status

Correct pointDB_RemoveEmptySource behaviour or change Point Source Management

Hello, About the tuning parameter pointDB_RemoveEmptySource the following Article : https://customers.osisoft.com/s/knowledgearticle?knowledgeArticleUrl=KB01008 Indicates : Perform any of the following actions to trigger removal of empty point sou...
Lionel Gergaud almost 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 2 No status

Allow OMF Health Authentication on PI Interfaces to Negotiate

Currently the OMF Health feature of PI interfaces only allows the interface to connect to the PI Web API OMF endpoint using Basic authentication. It would be good to see negotiate and windows authentication as an option like PI Adapters have to co...
Brian Rock 5 months ago in PI Interfaces / General 0 No status

PI Server is taking a lot of resources to interpolate a value before the first archived value

In a rescent issue we faced, we discoreved that when you try to interpolated a value before the first archived value on a system with a lot of archive files, the system must read all the archive files trying to find a previous value for interpolat...
marc.cote 6 months ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No status

As a PI Administrator, we should be able to see which PI mapping was used for a Windows AD user in PI message logs.

Through PI message logs I want to see which PI mapping was used for a Windows AD user, currently only the PI identity associated the windows AD is visible in the Logs. PI mapping information will give us more idea/facts about the particular Window...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 1 No status