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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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Data Archive

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Force Shift warning is misleading

When force shifting an archive, the following message is displayed: "Warning: This shift will clear data from the target archive. Are you sure you want to force an archive shift on to a new archive?" When Auto Archive Creation is enabled (having...
Guest over 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No Status

Make it easier to get a list of buffered or unbuffered points on the PI Data Archive

For PI System Administrators, it would be nice to be able to easily get a list of all buffered or unbuffered points on the PI Data Archive. Currently, a list of buffered points is possible to retrieve using 'piartool -bfs -ptlist', but a comprehe...
Guest over 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No Status

Support User Information in Connection History Tool

(pidiag -connectionhistory) Support the collection and retrieval of PI / Windows user information by the connection history database.   Currently, the connection history database only stores IP addresses which can be misleading when multiple mu...
Guest over 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 1 No Status

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 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 3 No Status

Option to ignore the digital state set ID in historical archive record headers and just use the one in the latest or in the point database.

If digital tags are found to be assigned to inappropriate digital state sets, changing the state set does not change historical data since the state set is also held in each archive record header. To correct the historical data, you have to offlin...
AlistairTCO about 1 year 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
Guest 3 months ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No Status

add-on for dataquality

Data scientists are 70% of their time busy with cleaning data. In the pi system, we can se lo and hi limits, but dataquality is more than that. It's also about consistent and continuous datarate, strange sensor signals,...Within Pi, this is still ...
Guest about 2 months ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No Status

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 1 year 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 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 Declined

2 factor authentication

As a user, I would like PI Data Archive to provide 2 factor authentication.
Guest over 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No Status