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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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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 3 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 3 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 3 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 3 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 3 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 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No status

Allow MQTT adapter to parse timestamps in local time without specifying a timezone suffix to each timestamp

We would like the MQTT Adapter to be able to interpret timestamps in local time without needing to explicitly state the timezone or UTC offset in each timestamp, but for the adapter to always interpret the timestamps as being in a specific timezon...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / AVEVA Adapter for MQTT 0 No status

Stream-level debugging

As a PI System Administrator, I'd like to be able to trace values being received, and subsequently being sent by the Adapter, similar to PI Interfaces. Having the ability to trace/log timestamps and values for specific streams would greatly help ...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / General 0 Future consideration

Allow default settings (eg. disable compression) for tags created by Adapters

We would like to be able to specify default settings for tags created by the adapters. This would include things such as disabling compression for tags on this adapter (without disabling it as the default for all new tags on the Data Archive). Thi...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / General 0 No status

Adapter for RDBMS to support multiple rows with same "Timestamp" colum as IndexColumn

As of version 1.x, with the IndexColumn being specified in the dataselection, the Adapter will require that each row in the source Database to have its own unique timestamp. If there are multiple rows with the same timestamp, first value with the ...
Ee Sheing Lee over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / AVEVA Adapter for RDBMS 1 Tell us more