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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PI Archive File header should keep track of last modified recno

The PI Archive File should keep track of the last modified RecNo. This would make cases where historical archive last modified times are updated (and potentially causing large backups) much easier to track down. In particular, this feature combin...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No status

Publish metrics

Create standing metrics for the PI System, especially the PI Data Archive
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 Declined

Digital State Sets and Bit Flags

a common data type encountered are Double Integers as bit flags, where different combinations of each bit of the binary representation of the double integer corresponds to a state. PI's Digital State Sets do not handle these well. First, it requi...
Matt Voll over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 7 No status

Have the ability to change PI Message log file configuration (Size, Duration etc)

If verbose logging is setup for applications such as (PI Batch) which write to the PI message log (or if you have very busy PI servers with lots of logs), the file sizes can get to several GB in size. It would be good to have the ability to config...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No status

Ability to store metadata information for PI data

For forecasts, probabilities are assigned to each forecast data. It would be helpful to be able to store this information (metadata) for each forecast value.
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 1 No status

Dynamic digital state sets

Currently, the values of string tags are stored in full for each event, which is a waste of space for string tags that have the same values appearing frequently. To save space, a digital tag can be used instead. However, to create this tag's digit...
Kenneth Barber over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 1 No status

Dictionary encoding of strings in string tags

Currently, the values of string tags are stored in full for each event, which is a waste of space for string tags that have the same values appearing frequently. To save space, please use dictionary encoding (AKA dictionary coding or dictionary co...
Kenneth Barber over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No status

Allow edited default tag attributes to be used in Point Builder SMT Plugin

Currently there is a procedure that allows using piconfig to Change Default Tag Attributes however these changes do not impact the defaults of tags created through Point Builder plugin within SMT but works on other clients that allow tag creation ...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No status

PI Data Archive Installation Wizard should provide an option to restore from a backup or copy current configuration from another PI Server

As we enter 2020, the process of moving/restoring the PI Data Archive hasn't changed since its inception. Typical procedure to move a PI Data Archive on a new server is to install same version of software and then perform backup/restore of the old...
Kapil Rakh over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No status

Refresh button for the Interface Configuration Utility (ICU)

When doing certain changes within the ICU (like configuring buffering for an interface) the end user has to close out of the ICU and then open it back up just for the ICU to refresh and reference change within higher versions of the ICU that have ...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 1 No status