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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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Extract events from buffer queue files or offline archives

Currently, the procedure to recover buffer queue files consists of parsing the queue file into a temporary archive and then merging this archive with the registered archive files that overlap with the impacted period. This final merge requires to ...
pspeybro over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 1 No status

Option to install sample PI tags with simulator interfaces

Posted on behalf of a customer. As of PI Server 2018 SP3, simulator interfaces have been removed from the PI Server setup kit, and the default PI Points are no longer installed. These were very important to check if the server installation went w...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No status

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

AutoPointSync for OPC DA should work on 64bit servers.

AutoPointSync for OPC DA does not install or run correctly on 64bit servers. As most new servers are 64bit this would seem to be an essential capability.
zubzub over 3 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface for OPC DA 1 No status

change the default behavior of the OPC DA interface to use /DC

per the OPC DA 2.x spec, the OPC server will call us back for all points that have a changes; even those points where we are polling. We have a switch to disable the callbacks for points that are not set to advise: /DC Can we make that the defau...
Clint Ramsey over 3 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface for OPC DA 0 No status

PI OPCtoCSV Tool: Subbranch filter depth

The PI Interface for OPC DA is packaged with the PI OPCtoCSV tool which extracts all OPC Items. It is possible to filter the items by subbranch however it recurses all sub-subbranches. We have an OPC server with around 20k items that we read into ...
Guest over 3 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface for OPC DA 0 No status

PI interface for OPC .. UA

it would be useful to have an interface that can connect and retrieve data from OPC UA server. it will help to avoid using any additional software for "downgrading" the protocol to OPC at client side.
ValterFostini over 3 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface for OPC DA 2 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