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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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My ideas: Data Archive

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Reduce archive file size by eliminating unused record numbers

Background: On a Data Archive where many points have been deleted, there will be many unused record numbers. Since the size of an archive file is tied to the highest existing record number (for performance reasons), this can result in archive file...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 5 Declined

Use of aliases for tag names

Allow the creation of tag name aliases.  This would allow us to present more user friendly option for tag name searches.  It would also help present a standardized tag name to users for tags from sources that don't follow our standard ta...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 1 Declined

Ability to Identify Critical (e.g. GxP) PI Tag in SMT

A checkbox or some mechanism to identify Critical data point (e.g GxP) in SMT. * can be used for search filter to separate critical vs. non-critical data (gxp vs non-gxp) * possible additional layer of confirmation/prompt prior deletion (?)  ...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 1 No status

Built-in feature to automatically move archive files past a certain age to a different directory

Automatically move archives from a disk to another based on their age. Use case: I only want to keep the last 2y of data on a SSD and the remaining will be stored on a regular disk. My use case can be achieve using the example PowerShell script l...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No status

When archive corruption is noted, automatically force a shift to a new archive

As a PI system user and administrator, I am interested in minimizing data loss due to a corrupted Archive. Please include an automated fix when corruption is noted. The PI server could force a shift to a new archive and re-processes the corrupted ...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No status

Make failback function optional

In the DA collective there is a function called "Failback". The function is described as: << When the collective member which the client application was connected to becomes unavailable, the client connection starts monitoring when the memb...
ErikJansson over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No status

Ability to reprocess individual points to handle digital set changes

Current functionality: When changing a point from digital set A to digital set B, all events going forward will use digital set B. If you do not reprocess the archives, the events that were archived before the digital state was changed remain asso...
GaryYegiazaryan 5 months ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No status

Ability for admins to restrict PI Data query to 2 years at a time.

I would like to restrict PI Vision users from pulling data for more than 2 years at a stretch. This setting should also restrict the PI Data link as well. This will make the software more robust to query timeout. Just let users know they need to a...
Ronald Main about 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No status

Archive corruption detection

For the moment some Archive corruption are not detected automatically by PI DA. For example error -15000 due to archive corruption. Please enhanced the archive corruption detection because we have more and more long history and it can become diffi...
dgenet almost 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No status

Provide a MUI Kit for the Data Archive / SMT

Provide a MUI Kit for the Data Archive / SMT
David Scott 11 months ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No status