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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PI Server is taking a lot of resources to interpolate a value before the first archived value

In a rescent issue we faced, we discoreved that when you try to interpolated a value before the first archived value on a system with a lot of archive files, the system must read all the archive files trying to find a previous value for interpolat...
marc.cote 4 months ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No status

PI SMT's Current Values plug-in should have an option to not display comma separators for large numbers.

PI System Management Tools currently displays comma separators for large numbers. For example: 1,000,000. As a PI admin/user, it would be beneficial if there was an option to remove these commas.
Bethany Jewett about 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No status

Enable Data Fanning for PI Collectives through PI System Management Tools

Currently, PI System Management Tools supports buffering but not data fanning (does not send data to all collective members). When using a PI Collective, customers would like to make changes to PI Point values in Archive Editor in the Primary Dat...
Guest about 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 1 No status

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 almost 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No status

PI SMT's Archive Editor should support manually adding NULL values

Archive Editor in PI System Management Tools should support writing NULL values (ie, empty strings). This is currently supported by other PI Clients. For example, it is possible to write empty strings using PI System Explorer as well as using a PI...
Bethany Jewett 9 months ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No status

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

Separate priority setting for Data Read and Data Write

Data Read and Date Write (Buffering) from/to PI Data Archive is based on the priority settings in PI SDK and PSE. We have a architecture of 6 member PI collective and all the source data is not buffered to the individual collective. Hence for othe...
vasanth51 about 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 2 No status

Include usernames in pidiag -xa export of PI Archive audit trail

As a PI Administrator in a regulated environment, it would be helpful if the Archive audit trail data exported by the pidiag -xa command included the username associated with each action. Currently, the pidiag -xa exports of archive audit logs do ...
Guest about 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 1 No status

Include Windows Counters/OMF Health for Message Log Event Rate

Having metrics that count the number of messages being written to the message log, and categorized by severity, gives a great dashboard overview of the status of PI data archive. For example, having a events/min count of error messages historized ...
Mike Horrocks about 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No status