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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Make a GUI for PI Backups for easy management

It would be interesting to have a GUI, maybe inside PI SMT, that would allow users to configure their PIBackups directly without having to mess around in 2-3 batch files. Checkboxes for the most common options, Active/inactive box etc. You could...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 Declined

Prevent PI-TAGs to be overwritten with new data for certain time range

Normally our TAGs are filled with data coming from an analysis (or PI-Equation) by snapshot-data or recalculated data. But sometimes we have to do manual corrections due to data loss and have to write data to this PI-TAGs manually. And we are not ...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 1 Declined

Automated re-compression/average after a period of time

As a PI Administrator, currently there is no way to compress or average (then delete) your data automatically after an event reaches a certain age. It would be nice to have the ability to automatically compress or average specific tags after the e...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 2 Declined

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 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 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 c...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 3 Declined

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 over 2 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 over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 3 No status

Add Performance counter that displays the %License Match for better tracking

Add Performance counter that displays the %License Match for better system evaluation.
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 1 Declined

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 over 2 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 over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 4 No status