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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Supporting Decimal type for PI tag in PI Data Archive

For customers from special fields (eg: Pharma industry ), they would like the value to be accessed as exactly 16.168 , and would like to know if data type " Decimal " can be introduced for PI tags in PI Data Archive; Just like the following descri...
Peng Li over 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No status

How to fix errors that prevent users from creating new PI Points, other than restarting the services.

Occasionally an error that prevent users from creating new PI Points occurs. In this case, I would like you to prepare other error resolution methods, because restarting the services will make the PI system temporarily unavailable.
Guest over 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No status

Create "aliases" of a pipoint using attributes

the idea is to have the possibility to assign a single tag more than one name, providing it a list of aliases in case of need. many tags in pi have names that were fine at the time they were created but after some years their name should be "chang...
ValterFostini over 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No status

online managed switch of primary member in a collective

Hi, this idea is to allow an automated command in the collective manager in order to perform in a single command downgrade the current primary server to just "secondary" role without rebuilding "all" the DA server, and at the same time to promote ...
ValterFostini over 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No status

Export Multiple Audit Logs into one XML/TXT File

The pidiag -xa utility doesn't support selecting a folder location and exporting the contents to a single XML/TXT file. This would be very helpful for bulk auditing actions.
Guest over 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 1 No status

Users should be able to define display digits on Archive editor

Currently the Archive editor doesn't allow users to define how many digits should be shown for the data values and it does not follow the DisplayDigits tag attribute setting. Users should be able to define how many digits to be shown.
Guest almost 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 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 almost 2 years 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

Store a timestamp of when an event enters the archive database

We have a use case that could be solved very easy if we have had this as a column in the data archive. Use case: We have made PI data availible through an own made API to our clients. They use this API to fetch data from our database and into thei...
Ole Dybsjord Skarsvag about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No status

Add Archive Statistics to AFSDK

I would like to be able to request current Event Queue, Primary Event Queue, and Archive Events counters programmatically in order to perform my own throttling when backfilling from external systems. This becomes especially important if you also h...
Le vi over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 1 No status