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

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smarter calculation of PI Backup required free space

When backfilling tags from AF its very easy to update many archives. I would like the backup script to only require free space for archives that don't exist in the target folder. We have periodic incremental backup failures do to a lack of free di...
Guest almost 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 3 No Status

Dynamic digital state sets

Currently, the values of string tags are stored in full for each event, which is a waste of space for string tags that have the same values appearing frequently. To save space, a digital tag can be used instead. However, to create this tag's digit...
Kenneth Barber almost 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 1 No Status

Dictionary encoding of strings in string tags

Currently, the values of string tags are stored in full for each event, which is a waste of space for string tags that have the same values appearing frequently. To save space, please use dictionary encoding (AKA dictionary coding or dictionary co...
Kenneth Barber almost 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 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...
Guest almost 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No Status

Allow edited default tag attributes to be used in Point Builder SMT Plugin

Currently there is a procedure that allows using piconfig to Change Default Tag Attributes however these changes do not impact the defaults of tags created through Point Builder plugin within SMT but works on other clients that allow tag creation ...
Guest almost 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No Status

PI Data Archive Installation Wizard should provide an option to restore from a backup or copy current configuration from another PI Server

As we enter 2020, the process of moving/restoring the PI Data Archive hasn't changed since its inception. Typical procedure to move a PI Data Archive on a new server is to install same version of software and then perform backup/restore of the old...
Guest almost 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No Status

Replace the batch (.bat) scripts in the %PISERVER% folder with PowerShell (.ps1) scripts

This replacement is appropriate for several reasons: PowerShell is easier to read and is a more powerful language than the batch language. Batch scripts are best used in Windows, whereas PowerShell is cross-platform. This replacement will support ...
Kenneth Barber almost 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 1 No Status

Compress archives that are backed up using "Copy"

Currently, when a "copy" backup occurs, the archives are copied as-is. Archive files take up a lot of space, but they also compress very well (if you deleted a bunch of tags without creating as many new ones), and since archive backups are rarely ...
Kenneth Barber almost 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No Status

Optimize and compress non-primary historic archive files

Currently, the same file format is used for primary and non-primary historic archive files. This does not make much sense since the two types are used very differently. For the primary archive: Write operations should be fast since it is collectin...
Kenneth Barber almost 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 4 No Status

Optimize the storage and retrieval of digital tags

Given that the archive file format is proprietary, this suggestion is me shooting in the dark. Disk compression compresses archive files very well, and my guess is that most of this compression occurs on the digital tags, since the number of po...
Kenneth Barber almost 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 7 No Status