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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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Incremental backups are not possible because of frequent backfilling

Occasional back filling of data would cause 5 TB of archives to be backed up with incremental backups. This is frustrating because only a few KB of data is changed in each archive. Can OSIsoft provide a way to backup only the data that has changed...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 3 No status

Reprocess fixed archives to dynamic or visa versa

Currently, PI SMT will only allow archives to be reprocessed according to it's original type. User would like to be able to choose whether to reprocess the archives from fixed to dynamic or vice versa.
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 1 Declined

Add Access Right that Allow Users to Create Tags But Not Delete Tags

As a user of the PI Data Archive, I would like the ability to give users access to create tags but not to be able to delete tags. This way they will not be able to accidentally delete tags but they still have the ability to create tags.
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 5 No status

Apply correct localhost.tz file during PI Data Archive installation

To account for the different historical implementations of Daylight Saving Time in different regions, a localhost.tz file is added to the %piserver%\dat directory after installation. As an installer of PI Data Archive, I would like the localhost.t...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 Declined

PI Archive ability to recover from drive disconnect

With everyone having virtual servers these days the host VM and SAN storage are on separate devices. When the storage device is unavailable or disconnected even briefly, the PI Archive process errors and gets DISABLED and can ONLY be restarted by ...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 2 No status

2 factor authentication

As a user, I would like PI Data Archive to provide 2 factor authentication.
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No status

Add the option to delete all event frames that reference an element when the element is deleted

When deleting an element using PI System Explorer, there should be an option to delete all event frames that reference the element. Currently when deleting an element, the delete option "Delete this object and all references to it" does not delete...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Event Frames (EF) 0 No status

Event Frame Re-capture/Backfill Option to Save Annotations/Reasons

When a backfill or "recapture events" option is selected for Event Frames, give the user an option to "Save Annotations" for that specific event frame. Right now, we use Event Frames to copy in Reason Codes and Comments (that are logged as annotat...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Event Frames (EF) 1 No status

Outputs at close available for all generation modes

‘Outputs at close’ is very powerful and flexible. It allows one to use expression analysis syntax in event frames. Unfortunately, it is only available for generation mode 'explicit trigger', but not for 'pulse', 'step', or 'step continuous'. If y...
MarkusKoschorreck over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Event Frames (EF) 1 No status

PI Data Archive - import tags and merge historic archives together

As a customer who is moving their PI Data Archive historic data to a Centralized IT Facility, hosting another PI Data Archive, and that would like to import tags and historic data from another PI Data Archive, it would be great to have a functiona...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No status