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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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Data Archive

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Force Shift warning is misleading

When force shifting an archive, the following message is displayed: "Warning: This shift will clear data from the target archive. Are you sure you want to force an archive shift on to a new archive?" When Auto Archive Creation is enabled (having...
Guest over 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No Status

Store the timestamp an event arrives at the Data Archive, in addition to the timestamp of the event itself

Currently, the Data Archive stores the timestamp of an event as well as it's value. It would be useful to also store the timestamp at which the event arrives at the Data Archive (perhaps this could be a configurable option set for individual tags)...
Guest over 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 Declined

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 over 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 4 Declined

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 over 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 Declined

Backup pre-commited

As a Pi Admin, it would be usefull to be able to locate the Precommit directory used during the PI backup process to a different location from the Backup directory
jerome.boudon over 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 Declined

Confirm connection before writing to PI DA

No description provided
Guest over 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 1 Declined

Enhance tag search and message log filters via logical operators

Proposed features - search for TAGS in PI SMT using also logical operators (like AND, OR and NOT) to refine the search criteria -  search for MESSAGE LOGS in PI SMT using also logical operators (like AND, OR and NOT) to refine the search criter...
Guest over 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 3 Declined

Increasing the dynamic range of compressed data

I see too often customers struggling to find the right exception and compression settings. When exception/compression are not well defined, they end up having too many values or missing values, what causes a lot of problems when the affected tag i...
Guest over 1 year 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 over 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 2 Declined

Changing PI Data Archive Security Slider

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Guest over 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 1 Declined