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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    Segment PI Tag Delete Permissions

    Want to be able to allow some users the ability to create and modify tags, but to avoid the issues with deleted tags being hard to recover or accidents, remove their ability to delete tags. Currently, PI Tag Security has only two options: Read/Wri...
    PriceN over 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No status

    PI SMT's Archive Editor should support manually adding NULL values

    Archive Editor in PI System Management Tools should support writing NULL values (ie, empty strings). This is currently supported by other PI Clients. For example, it is possible to write empty strings using PI System Explorer as well as using a PI...
    Bethany Jewett over 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No status

    Buffer subsystem to handle deleted values

    Can buffer subsystem be enhanced to manage value deletions from tags? We have a collective and utilize buffering to send data to both collective members however we have to jump through hoops to delete data from both collective members. It would be...
    ehoffman almost 4 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 1 No status

    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 4 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 3 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...
    Kapil Rakh almost 4 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 1 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 4 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 1 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 4 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 4 No status

    Improve PI Server Installation kit: disk space requirements should include the minimal PI Backup

    When calculating the disk space requirements on a recent upgrade the drive was expected to have only 138 MB installed. But the install failed due to not enough disk space on the drive because the minimal backup needed a certain amount of disk spac...
    Nathan Skitt almost 4 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 1 No status

    Users should be able to define display digits on Archive editor

    Currently the Archive editor doesn't allow users to define how many digits should be shown for the data values and it does not follow the DisplayDigits tag attribute setting. Users should be able to define how many digits to be shown.
    Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No status

    Archive corruption detection

    For the moment some Archive corruption are not detected automatically by PI DA. For example error -15000 due to archive corruption. Please enhanced the archive corruption detection because we have more and more long history and it can become diffi...
    dgenet over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No status