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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My ideas: Data Archive

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Write a description for the PI Data Archive services

When you open the Services program (services.msc), none of the PI Data Archive services have a description. Please provide descriptions for these. The specific services are: PI Archive Subsystem PI Backup Subsystem PI Base Subsystem PI Buffer Subs...
Kenneth Barber over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 Declined

Provide the user ability to select Event Frame templates during the Batch to Event Frames Migration

During the Batch to Event Frames Migration, all migrated Event Frames are created with 'Migrated' templates (i.e. PIBatchMigrated, PIUnitBatchMigrated, etc.). I would like the ability to pick and choose what templates migrated Event Frames are cre...
Ellery Murdock over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No status

Optimize the storage and retrieval of digital tags

Given that the archive file format is proprietary, this suggestion is me shooting in the dark. Disk compression compresses archive files very well, and my guess is that most of this compression occurs on the digital tags, since the number of poss...
Kenneth Barber over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 7 No status

Have an option to use step interpolation to the previous event

When the Step attribute of a PI Point is "on", PI assumes that a value is constant until the next event, which works well in most cases. For PI Points that track rolling averages, rolling totals, real-time derivatives of totalizer tags with respe...
Kenneth Barber over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 1 No status

Option to turn off interpolation for a PI Point

Currently, PI will always interpolate to determine a value for a PI Point between archived events. The Step attribute determines the interpolation method. "On" means "step interpolation" and "off" means "linear interpolation". This works well for ...
Kenneth Barber over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 3 Declined

Change Flat Data to No Data if PI Interface to PI Server Connection is lost

Problem: iIf PI Interface disconnected from PI Server, PI Point will show flat data until connection up not No data or Disconnected Propose Solution: Pl Server have ability to change flat data to no data if PI interface disconnected from PI Serve...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 1 No status

Windows 10 Support for PI Server and AF in production

Supporting Windows 10 in production is a frequent request for us even if we have to limit the tag count to 5K as an example. There are lots of applications that can benefit fro a small historian. Supporting Windows 10 for testing purposes only is ...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 Declined

Restore Write access to Module Dabase after uninstalling AF link

MDB to AF synchronisation is not needed anymore and new installation of data archive are free to not install it. Existing installations must maintain this link in order to allow PI-ACE to function properly and add new context. PI-ACE cannot be rep...
alouette_pelr over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No status

Bring "old" data archive into ultra fast and seamless database system

Please do away with archaic pi archive file system with non-seamless begin/end dates to sql that runs on a ultra-powerhouse database server capturing always available, never-ending data.
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No status

Enable PI World Trust without Windows Security

The recent PI DA does not allow PI World user access to PI DA other than windows security. Windows Security requires SPN registration which is somehow hard to execute in right manner. I suggest to implement either function. 1: Enable PI DA to al...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No status