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

    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 m...
    Guest almost 4 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 3 No status

    Queue PI Point creation attempts if made during archive shifts

    Currently, when archives are shifting, any attempts to create PI Points will be rejected with the error "Error on internal point editing call during point create for archive add point(<point info>). [-11095] Archive Shift already in progress...
    Ryan Biggins about 1 year 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 almost 4 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 5 No status

    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 almost 4 years 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 almost 4 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 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 almost 4 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 3 No status

    Rename overwritten archive files with new start time when using Archive_OverwriteDataOnAutoShiftFailure

    When using the Tuning Parameter, "Archive_OverwriteDataOnAutoShiftFailure", the system uses the oldest registered archive as the new primary. But it keeps the name of the old archive. It would be very helpful if the archive subsystem could rename ...
    kliffhopson 10 months ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No status

    PI Archive ability to recover from drive disconnect

    With everyone having virtual servers these days the host VM and SAN storage are on separate devices. When the storage device is unavailable or disconnected even briefly, the PI Archive process errors and gets DISABLED and can ONLY be restarted by ...
    Guest almost 4 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 2 No status

    2 factor authentication

    As a user, I would like PI Data Archive to provide 2 factor authentication.
    Guest almost 4 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No status

    PI Data Archive - import tags and merge historic archives together

    As a customer who is moving their PI Data Archive historic data to a Centralized IT Facility, hosting another PI Data Archive, and that would like to import tags and historic data from another PI Data Archive, it would be great to have a functiona...
    Guest almost 4 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No status