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

    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 almost 4 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 almost 4 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 1 No status

    Event mode that applies NoReplace to snapshot as well

    Currently the NoReplace event mode will Append data if a value with the same timestamp as the snapshot comes in. Customer would like an event mode that would discard the value if there is existing data with the same timestamp regardless of the val...
    Guest almost 4 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 2 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 almost 4 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 almost 4 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 almost 4 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 over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No status

    As a PI Administrator, we should be able to see which PI mapping was used for a Windows AD user in PI message logs.

    Through PI message logs I want to see which PI mapping was used for a Windows AD user, currently only the PI identity associated the windows AD is visible in the Logs. PI mapping information will give us more idea/facts about the particular Window...
    Guest almost 4 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 1 No status

    PI Server should recover from any ungraceful shutdown

    While the recovery mechanism for queue corruption is much more robust on newer version of PI Data Archive compared to previous versions, there are still few cases where PI Data Archive does not fully recover from ungraceful shutdowns. PI Server sh...
    Guest almost 4 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 Declined

    Allow bi-temporal data archiving

    PI DA Server should allow for more flexibility in terms of the format of archived data. A big advantage would be if PI could archive two timestamps per event. One timestamp will come from whatever the data source is (PI Interfaces, fiels devices, ...
    Guest almost 4 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 2 Declined