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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.

To start, take a look at the ideas in the list below and VOTE for your favorite ideas submitted by other users. POST your own idea if it hasn’t been suggested yet. Include COMMENTS and share relevant business case details that will help our product team get more information on the suggestion. Please note that your ideas and comments are visible to all other users.


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Data Archive

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Dedicate/reserve threads for PI server management.

In the event of all the threads being consumed on a PI server a PI admin is unable to manage a PI server remotely. They must remote into the server and manage it from there. However, even from the server there are times where simple tasks like ope...
GaryYegiazaryan 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 about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 1 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 about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No status

Support storing data quality

As a user I want to be able to collect, store and analyze quality information associated with real-time events and assets. This feature will allow the user to determine the trustworthiness of the data when decisions are made. Note: This was previ...
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 Declined

Reprocess fixed archives to dynamic or visa versa

Currently, PI SMT will only allow archives to be reprocessed according to it's original type. User would like to be able to choose whether to reprocess the archives from fixed to dynamic or vice versa.
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 1 Declined

PI Data Archive: Improve piarchss performance

PI Archive Subsystem should be able to use operating memory more efficiently. For example by loading as many non-primary archives into its process memory as possible (perhaps it could be affected by a user setting).
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 2 Declined

Add a Confirmed Write methods

All methods exposed through AF SDK and other Developer Technologies are "fire and forget". Please add methods, at least for time series data, which return when the data has been processed. A write operation that returns when data has been process...
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 1 Declined

2 timestamps for future data tags

Currently, if you want to store predictions for 1 day, 2 days, 3 days, etc. into the future, you must create a different PI tag for each distance into the future. Future data tags should support 2 timestamps: the timestamp that the predicted valu...
Kenneth Barber about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 4 Declined

Extract events from buffer queue files or offline archives

Currently, the procedure to recover buffer queue files consists of parsing the queue file into a temporary archive and then merging this archive with the registered archive files that overlap with the impacted period. This final merge requires to ...
pspeybro about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 1 No status

Option to install sample PI tags with simulator interfaces

Posted on behalf of a customer. As of PI Server 2018 SP3, simulator interfaces have been removed from the PI Server setup kit, and the default PI Points are no longer installed. These were very important to check if the server installation went w...
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No status