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

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

    Correct pointDB_RemoveEmptySource behaviour or change Point Source Management

    Hello, About the tuning parameter pointDB_RemoveEmptySource the following Article : https://customers.osisoft.com/s/knowledgearticle?knowledgeArticleUrl=KB01008 Indicates : Perform any of the following actions to trigger removal of empty point sou...
    Lionel Gergaud over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 2 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 almost 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 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 almost 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No status

    Reduce archive file size by eliminating unused record numbers

    Background: On a Data Archive where many points have been deleted, there will be many unused record numbers. Since the size of an archive file is tied to the highest existing record number (for performance reasons), this can result in archive file...
    Guest almost 4 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 5 Declined

    Use of aliases for tag names

    Allow the creation of tag name aliases.  This would allow us to present more user friendly option for tag name searches.  It would also help present a standardized tag name to users for tags from sources that don't follow our standard ta...
    Guest almost 4 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 1 Declined

    Ability to Identify Critical (e.g. GxP) PI Tag in SMT

    A checkbox or some mechanism to identify Critical data point (e.g GxP) in SMT. * can be used for search filter to separate critical vs. non-critical data (gxp vs non-gxp) * possible additional layer of confirmation/prompt prior deletion (?)  ...
    Guest almost 4 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 1 No status

    Built-in feature to automatically move archive files past a certain age to a different directory

    Automatically move archives from a disk to another based on their age. Use case: I only want to keep the last 2y of data on a SSD and the remaining will be stored on a regular disk. My use case can be achieve using the example PowerShell script l...
    Guest almost 4 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No status