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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.

To start, take a look at the ideas in the list below and VOTE for your favorite ideas submitted by other users. POST your own idea if it hasn’t been suggested yet. Include COMMENTS and share relevant business case details that will help our product team get more information on the suggestion. Please note that your ideas and comments are visible to all other users.


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Data Archive

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Guest almost 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 1 Declined

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 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 5 Declined

Link tuning parameters to the UOM database

Many of the tuning parameters have units, but the unit can only be found in the tuning parameter's description and is not written consistently (sometimes written in full, sometimes abbreviated, sometimes written as a symbol). Linking the tuning pa...
Kenneth Barber almost 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 Declined

Being able to activate the Log of abnormally long request made to the PI Data Archive

It would be helpful to determine which users or applications made heavy requests to the Data Archive Server. This could be an option to be activated or not. Logging the ip, user identity, concerned tags, duration of the request Those information a...
jerome.boudon almost 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 Declined

Repeatedly loop future data

Customer would like to be able to loop future data.  For instance since yearly temperatures are about the same every year for a given month, it would be nice if only one set of the projections are stored somewhere and just repeated again and again...
Guest almost 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 Declined

New attribute for a PI point type ID

To take full advantage of AF and substitution parameters it would be great to have a sort of type ID. Now i have to rename all tags to gain this possibility. It would be easy if i could use a portion of the tag name and a  type id. Then i could de...
Hobbe almost 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 3 Tell us more

Undelete PI tags

Recovering a PI tag that was deleted accidently is extremly annoying. Why do I have to create a new tag and reprocess all historical archives to convert the old tag to the new tag in the archives? (https://techsupport.osisoft.com/Troubleshooting/K...
Guest almost 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 3 No Status

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

Support User Information in Connection History Tool

(pidiag -connectionhistory) Support the collection and retrieval of PI / Windows user information by the connection history database.   Currently, the connection history database only stores IP addresses which can be misleading when multiple mu...
Guest almost 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 1 No Status

PI Archive File header should keep track of last modified recno

The PI Archive File should keep track of the last modified RecNo. This would make cases where historical archive last modified times are updated (and potentially causing large backups) much easier to track down. In particular, this feature comb...
Guest almost 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No Status