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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.

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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 over 2 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 over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 2 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 over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 1 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 over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 1 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 over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 1 No status

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 over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 2 Declined

Thresholds for PI Points

It would be nice to have threshold attributes for pi points. Then we could configure that values received from the source outside this limits would be ignored (not stored), substituted by the respective threshold value or even by an "Over\Under Ra...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 2 Declined

Method to backup and restore PI Points only

The PI backup tools currently do not have a method to backup only the files related to PI Points. The purpose of this would be to refresh the point table on a QA system from a production system. The current PI backup method is all or nothing.
GaryYegiazaryan over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No status

Negative numbers in digitalsets

Negative numbers in digitalsets for all PI interface and skip numbers, basically that the digitalset is like the enum of AF
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 1 No status

Ability to reprocess individual points to handle digital set changes

Current functionality: When changing a point from digital set A to digital set B, all events going forward will use digital set B. If you do not reprocess the archives, the events that were archived before the digital state was changed remain asso...
GaryYegiazaryan 5 months ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No status